Noting that the two leaders had positive and productive meetings, Spicer said Trump and Xi agreed to work in concert to expand areas of cooperation while managing differences based on mutual respect.
Tillerson insisted that Xi was not rattled by Trump's decision: "President Xi expressed an appreciation for the president letting him know and providing the rationale and said, as it was told to me, he understood that such a response is necessary when people are killing children".
A Chinese envoy arrives in South Korea on Monday to discuss North Korea's increasingly defiant weapons program as a U.S. Navy strike group heads to the region amid concerns Pyongyang may be readying a fresh nuclear test.
The South Korea capital Seoul is home to 10 million people who are well within range of the North Korean artillery batteries, which planners believe would open fire on the city in response to a preemptive strike.
The Taiwan issue was not raised during a just-concluded summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) because their priority was dealing with North Korea's nuclear threat, experts said Saturday.
The U.S. administration's first recourse is very likely to be economic - pushing China to crack down on Chinese banks and companies said to provide North Korea access to the global financial system.
"During the China-US presidential summit at Mar-a-Lago, both sides said they were committed to the goal of denuclearizing the peninsula, would continue to comprehensively carry out UN Security Council resolutions related to North Korea, and agreed to keep close communication and coordination on the issue".
The statement, approved by all 15 members, also "demanded" that North Korea "immediately refrain from further actions" and "comply fully with its obligations".
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All three have experience hosting major football tournaments, with World Cups having taken place in the U.S. and Mexico already. Montagliani has also voiced his opinions on the problems that exist within football's hierarchy (via The Guardian ).
North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea off the Korean Peninsula earlier this week, the latest in a series of recent test firings.
On trade issues, Trump called for China to "level the playing field" for American workers, stressing the need for reciprocal market access.
The North may stage a "strategic provocation" to mark key political dates this month, Kim said, adding that Wu's visit would serve as a "strong warning" against Pyongyang. "And so I think this is a wrongheaded notion, that we just skip the most important step - and that is whether or not we should go to war".
Ahead of the summit, Trump signed a pair of executive orders focussed on reducing the United States trade deficit.
On Friday, after Trump and Xi met, Liu Jieyi, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, said military actions will only worsen the suffering of the Syrian people and make the situation in Syria and the region more complicated and turbulent. He did not elaborate.
Jeong Jaeheung, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Security Strategy Studies, the Sejong Institute, drew historical parallels between US President Donald Trump's foreign policy and the Bush administration's pivot to the Middle East. -China relationship and burnishing his foreign policy credentials than achieving a breakthrough.
Chinese Leader Xi Jinping's words after the Syrian strike can be construed as moderate. "For the peace and stability of the world, we will also fulfil our historical responsibility".
The US fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian air base on Friday from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched earlier in the week, escalating the US role in Syria and drawing criticism from Assad's allies including Russian Federation and Iran.
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