Xi urges ‘restraint’ on North Korea as US carrier nears

This picture taken on April 21, 2017 shows South Korean historians and activists during a protest against China’s President Xi Jinping’s “absurd remarks” outside the Chinese embassy in Seoul. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Monday discussed bilateral ties and the situation on the Korean Peninsula. PHOTO | XINHUA

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The Chinese president recalled that he reached important consensus with Trump during a meeting at the latter’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier this month