Even the president appears to be doubting his strategy to win over Beijing, as relations fray between the trading partners.

President Donald Trump is ready to admit he may have met his match. It’s not Vladimir Putin, who is still dropping bombs on Ukraine despite Trump asking him not to, or Benjamin Netanyahu, who tore up the Gaza ceasefire agreement the U.

President Donald Trump said in a late-night social media post that Chinese leader Xi Jinping was very tough to make a deal with, raising questions about whether a fragile economic truce between the world’s two largest economies will hold.