While Donald Trump hailed the outcome of trade talks in London, Xi Jinping walked away with an understated strategic gain: a negotiating process that buys China time and helps defuse the threat of more harmful tariffs and technology curbs.

High-level delegations from the United States and China are meeting in London to try and shore up a fragile truce in a trade dispute that has roiled the global economy.

President Donald Trump said a trade deal with China "is done, subject to final approval." "Our deal with China is done, subject to final approval with President Xi and me," Trump said on Truth Social,