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President Trump said Thursday that he will speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the coronavirus pandemic.

Speaking during the daily White House coronavirus briefing, Trump said that Xi had requested the call.

“It’s his call, and think we will have a fruitful call tonight at 9:00. We will be talking about the virus,” the president said.

Trump also touted the trade deal he negotiated with China, but added that China has the “best dream in the world” of getting to negotiate with Joe Biden rather than him should the former veep win in November.

“We made a deal with China and we’re going to do another one, it looks like. They want to do it very badly. Maybe they’ll want to wait” until after November, he said.

The call with Xi will come the same day that the US overtook China as the country with the most cases of coronavirus, with over 82,000 cases in all, Johns Hopkins University researchers reported.

The president called the rise in US cases “a tribute to our testing,” but also suggested China’s numbers couldn’t be trusted.