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

TOKYO, May ‌20 (Reuters) - 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.

(Reporting ​by John Geddie and Tim Kelly; Editing by Jacqueline ‌Wong)

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