Donald Trump said he would visit China after talking to his leader Xi Jinping over the phone.

The U.S. president said he had been invited to the White House during the "very good conversation" - although the trip was not confirmed by either party.

Thursday's call was the first time the two leaders have spoken since Trump launched a trade war with Beijing in February. Chinese state media reported that the call occurred at the request of the White House.

Trump wrote on social media that the one and a half hours of dialogue focused primarily on trade and “drawing very positive conclusions to both countries.”

"He invited me to China," Trump said of the phone call with Xi Jinping, during a conference call with Xi Jinping.

"We both accepted it, so I'm going there at some point with the First Lady, who wants to come here with the First Lady of China."

The reading of the Chinese dialogue mentioned its invitation, but not reciprocity to the White House.

According to Xinhua News Agency, China's State News Agency, Xi Jinping reportedly told Trump that the United States should "retract negative measures taken against China."

The Chinese leader is said to have told Trump that China has always kept its promise and that both sides should abide by it since the consensus reached - referring to the recent deals in Geneva attacks between the two countries.

Both sides accused the other of violating a deal designed to significantly reduce trade tariffs – a deal that Trump touted as a “all reset”.

This comes after Trump raised tariffs on imports from many countries but retained China's highest tax rate. Beijing has increased its response at its own pace of imports, triggering growth in tits, reaching a 145% peak.

A tentative truce broke out in May, lowering U.S. tariffs on Chinese products to 30%, while Beijing cut U.S. imports to 10%, and pledged to remove barriers on key mineral exports.

The agreement provides the parties with a 90-day deadline to attempt to reach a trade agreement.

But since then, negotiations seem to have come to a halt amid claims that the deal was violated.

The United States accuses China of not restarting the transportation of critical minerals and rare earth magnets that are crucial to the automotive and computer industries.

China's Ministry of Commerce denied these claims and accused the United States of disrupting transactions by introducing new restrictions on computer chips.

Trump has introduced new export restrictions on semiconductor design software and announced that he would revoke visas for Chinese students.

The U.S. president said after the appeal: "There is no longer any question of respecting the complexity of rare earth products."

"Chinese students can come, no problem, no problem - it's an honor to have them frankly. But we want to check them out."

Chinese state media reported that Xi Jinping warned Washington that it should handle Taiwan “carefully” to avoid conflict, just as U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said China poses an "imminent" threat to autonomous islands.

Hegseth told Singapore's Shangri-la dialogue that Beijing is "reliably preparing to use military power to change the balance of power".

China sees Taiwan as a province that will eventually be unified and has not ruled out the use of force to achieve this goal. The United States supports Taiwan militarily, but it has not been officially recognized due to the "one China" policy.

According to readings from a phone call to Chinese media on Thursday, Xi Jinping stressed that the United States should deal with "careful handling of the Taiwan issue to prevent a few Taiwanese independence separatists from dragging China and the United States into conflict and confrontation."

Calls between Trump and Xi have been awaited, after months of silence between the two leaders.

The White House touted the possibility of their conversation starting from the first week of Trump’s presidency – he finally vented his frustration on social media earlier this week.

Trump wrote: "I like China Xi Jinping, always has it and will, but he is very difficult and it is difficult to reach a deal with it!"

Trump made it clear that he liked to participate in negotiations. But this is not the way China does business.

Beijing prefers to appoint a negotiation team led by trusted officials. Any call or meeting between the heads of state is usually thoroughly planned and carefully arranged.

The Chinese also don't want to be seen by Washington's request.