President Donald Trump said Monday that Washington has reached an understanding with Beijing allowing about 600,000 Chinese students to continue studying at U.S. universities. The figure roughly matches the pre-pandemic peak of Chinese enrollment and signals a thaw in people-to-people exchanges after more than a year of heightened trade and security tensions. Trump added that President Xi Jinping has invited him to China and that he expects to make the trip "this year or shortly thereafter," underscoring what he described as improving economic ties between the world’s two largest economies. The two sides this month extended a pause on their tariff war, keeping U.S. duties on Chinese goods at 30% and China’s counter-tariffs at 10% through at least Nov. 10. Despite the conciliatory tone, Trump warned he could levy a tariff of up to 200% on Chinese imports of rare-earth magnets if Beijing fails to maintain promised supplies. The magnets are critical for automotive, electronics and defense manufacturing, and access to them remains a lingering point of leverage in the broader trade relationship.