UPDATE 1-No major breakthroughs in Trump-Xi summit, UN chief says

A meeting ​between the ‌leaders of the ​world's two biggest economies last week may have ‌lowered tensions but achieved no breakthrough, the UN's Secretary-General said on Wednesday, raising the stakes for ‌a visit by China's Xi Jinping to ‌Washington later this year.

Xi and U.S. President Donald Trump did not agree in Beijing to extend a ⁠fragile ​trade ⁠truce that expires later this year, though Trump has ⁠invited Xi to visit Washington for a ​reciprocal visit on September 24. "There was a belief ⁠that the tensions between the two countries was easing. ⁠But ​let's be clear, no major breakthrough was achieved and so the visit ⁠of President Xi to Washington gains an enormous importance," ⁠UN ⁠chief Antonio Guterres told a press conference in Tokyo.

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