Xi Presses Trump on Taiwan as They Agree to Meet in China in April

President Trump said he had accepted an invitation from China’s leader, Xi Jinping, to visit Beijing in April. The entreaty came during a call between the two leaders on Monday morning, in which they discussed several areas of bilateral and geopolitical tension, including lackluster Chinese purchases of American soybeans, along with Ukraine and Taiwan.

The call took place several weeks after a summit between the leaders in South Korea, where officials agreed to a yearlong truce that has rolled back many of the tariffs Mr. Trump imposed on China, and the retaliatory measures Beijing took in return.

In a social media post on Monday afternoon, Mr. Trump said it was a “very good telephone call” that touched on Ukraine, China’s exports of chemicals used to make fentanyl and its purchases of farm products. He described the call as a “follow up to our highly successful meeting in South Korea” and said there had been significant progress on both sides in meeting those commitments.

“Now we can set our sights on the big picture,” Mr. Trump said. “To that end, President Xi invited me to visit Beijing in April, which I accepted, and I reciprocated where he will be my guest for a State Visit in the U.S. later in the year.”

In its readout, Chinese state media said on Monday that the leaders had discussed the situation in Ukraine, and that Mr. Xi had called for both countries to maintain the positive momentum in their relationship since the South Korea meeting.

State media also reported that Mr. Xi had “clarified China’s principled position” on Taiwan, a self-governing island that China lays claim to. Mr. Xi emphasized “that Taiwan’s return to China is an important part of the postwar international order,” state media said. Mr. Trump had previously said that Taiwan did not come up in the meeting in South Korea.