Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday that trade negotiators from the two countries had reached a “framework consensus”, Beijing’s state media said.

“Through the Kuala Lumpur economic and trade talks, the two sides… reached a framework consensus on reciprocal solutions to current pressing economic and trade issues,” Wang told Rubio, according to a readout of their Monday call published by state broadcaster CCTV.

Negotiators have been working to hammer out the details of a deal on tariffs and other trade issues ahead of Thursday’s meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. (AFP)