Donald Trump will not be able to hammer out a deal with the Chinese at a summit on his private golf club in Florida , Kevin Rudd has said.

The US President's preferred style of face-to-face dealmaking is anathema to the way Chinese politicians do things, according to the former prime minister .

Donald Trump will meet with Xi Jinping in Mar-a-Lago later this month. (AAP)

Mr Trump and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping are expected to meet at Mar-a-Lago later this month to agree to end the trade war .

But it will not go as Mr Trump would like, Mr Rudd warned in an article published in the Asia Society Policy Institute .

"Trump, as we have seen throughout his business career and most recently in Hanoi, wants to do a large part of it himself in a final round of brinksmanship with his opposite number," Mr Rudd wrote.

"Unfortunately for the Donald, the Chinese just don’t do it that way with their leaders."

Xi Jinping with Kevin Rudd in 2010. (AAP)

Premier Xi would not be willing to appear at a high-profile summit unless the agreements were already "signed, sealed and delivered".

"Put simply, it would be bad domestic politics for Xi to come away without an agreement," Mr Rudd said.

"And the Chinese would not be prepared to take that risk, however small it might be, and however badly both sides may actually want a deal.

"The deep Chinese learning from the Hanoi outcome is that 'we Chinese would never allow that to happen to our leader'."

President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP/AAP)

Mr Rudd is referring to the failed Hanoi summit held last month between Mr Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un , which ended with both countries storming out of negotiations.

Mr Trump is under pressure domestically to end the trade war , which began when he introduced massive tax hikes on Chinese imports.

Beijing responded by putting tariffs on US imports that would cause the most political damage to Mr Trump.

Soybean farmer Michael Petefish stands inside a bin with soybeans from last season's crop at his farm near Claremont in southern Minnesota. China responded to Trump's new taxes on imports by stopping the purchase of American soybeans. (AP) (AP)

That includes soybeans, pork and liquefied natural gas, all products largely made in Trump-supporting regions.

Since then the US trade deficit with China has ballooned.

The US trade deficit with China has exploded since Donald Trump began the trade war. (AAP)