Many blue-collar workers helped propel him to his unexpected election victory on November 8 and Trump is under pressure to deliver for them. Trump strongly criticized China's trade policies and trade surplus over the U.S. throughout the presidential campaign and into the early days of his presidency, going so far as to sign an executive order to investigate the trade deficit with China last month.
As the summit closed on Friday, Trump told reporters that he had made "tremendous progress in our relationship with China" and called the U.S. Of course, we hope that the time bought by this summit will make it easier for Trump and Xi to keep the U.S.
"The relationship developed by President Xi and myself I think is outstanding". "Lots of very potentially bad problems will be going away".
Xi also spoke in mostly positive terms.
He added that they, during the meeting, have also gained better understanding of each other, stepped up their mutual trust, scored multiple major consensus, and built up a good working relationship. "For the peace and stability of the world, we will also fulfill our historical responsibility". Who needs golf when you have such charming grandkids as your trump card? The official Xinhua News Agency said Trump will travel to China at an "early date" in 2017, but gave no details.
Both sides plan to make good use of the joint staff dialogue set up to boost military communications, he said, adding that both countries intend to deepen cooperation in law enforcement and cybersecurity, and to boost cultural and people-to-people exchanges.
On Saturday, Trump tweeted about his meeting with Xi: "Goodwill and friendship were formed".
But in a sign that rough spots remained, Tillerson afterwards described the discussions as "very frank and candid". But Trump and Xi did not reach any substantive trade deals. "The propaganda apparatus is going to be cautious about being too critical about USA actions while Xi is in America", said Bishop, who writes the influential Sinocism blog.
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The conventional wisdom is that, with this unexpected shift in policy, Trump has put Xi on notice: if China fails to act on North Korea, the USA will take unilateral military action.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has reported that global crude steelmaking capacity more than doubled from 2000 to 2014, with global capacity growth led by an unprecedented expansion of production in China, the Office of the United States Trade Representative notes.
While Trump would not say what he wants China to do specifically, he said he thinks China will "want to be stepping up" on the North Korea issue. The Trump administration is not expected to use the report to formally label China a currency manipulator but the language it does use will be closely studied for any clues about how it plans to engage with China about currency issues in the future. Still, conditions attached to the re-opening, including Chinese requirements for an acceptably traceable US meat supply, have held up sales.
Xi and Trump agreed to a 100-day plan for trade talks to increase United States exports to China and to reduce the United States trade deficit. While Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, described regime change in Syria as a USA priority and inevitable, Tillerson suggested that last week's American airstrikes in retaliation for the chemical attack hadn't really changed US priorities toward ousting Assad.
It could focus specifically on the steel and aluminum markets, as US officials have said that China's trade practices in this area have had a major impact on USA manufacturers' ability to compete.
"In order for that to happen, North Korea has to change its posture", Tillerson said.
Trump's remarks came shortly before the U.S. launched a cruise missile strike against Syria after Bashar al-Assad's regime used poison gas to kill scores of children.
United States security concerns with China also focus on Beijing's expansive territorial claims in the strategic South China Sea.
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