State-run Chinese tabloid Global Times said the meeting "served as an indicator that the China-U.S. relationship is still very much on course since the Trump administration took office in January" and it was likely the two nations would develop a more "pragmatic relationship".
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his USA counterpart Donald Trump on Friday pledged to expand mutually beneficial cooperation and to manage their differences based on mutual respect.
Tillerson was briefing reporters Friday after President Donald Trump's two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago.
On March 31, Trump signed two executive orders on trade, which he said will end the "theft of American prosperity", as the administration takes "necessary and lawful action" to end trade abuses.
According to a statement on China's foreign ministry website, Mr Xi told Mr Trump: "We have a thousand reasons to get China-US relations right, and not one reason to spoil the China-US relationship". "The president said that he would look at the dates, and we would work with them to see when that visit might occur", he said.
First Lady Melania Trump, talks with students in a 7th grade civics class while touring the Bak Middle School of the Arts with Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese president Xi Jinping, Friday, April 7, 2017, in West Palm Beach, Fla. It added that Trump "has created an opportunity for the United States, and for his presidency, in Syria".
"It seems that both countries have understood the importance of how essential a smooth transition needs to be and not just for the two countries involved here but really for the entire world over", it said. President Trump was predicted to push China to reduce its trade imbalance with the United States, which exceeded $347 billion in 2016.
Tillerson expressed concern about the "significant progress" he said the North made in its missile development, such as the "sophistication around their rocket launch programs, their sophistication around the type of fueling that they use".
Ahead of the two presidents' second round of talks, senior Chinese and United States officials initiated two newly-installed dialogue mechanisms in economy, as well as diplomacy and security.
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The Syrian opposition has reported that Assad's forces have begun flying again from an air base struck last week by USA missiles. Iran has provided crucial military and economic assistance to Assad throughout Syria's six-year civil war.
Regarding the biggest pending issue between them, North Korea, Trump and Xi managed only a pledge to strengthen cooperation toward denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
"The decision to establish specific mechanisms of focused dialogues on key issues was especially important and useful", Carpenter said. They say it gives the former real estate mogul breathing room to learn on the job and accept advice from more seasoned advisers.
For China, these two concessions are not so burdensome.
"Her appearance at the Chinese embassy, with a certain political and diplomatic significance, could be invigorating to the China-US relationship", the paper said.
China aims to boost infrastructure construction to increase interconnectivity and cooperation between China and the rest of Eurasia, through its Belt and Road Initiative unveiled in 2013.
Their comments came as Tillerson was making the Trump administration's first official trip this week to Russian Federation, a staunch Assad ally.
"Some forces are loud-mouthed that the recent USA military attack on Syria is an action of warning us but we are not frightened by it", the report said, adding that the North's "tremendous military muscle with a nuclear force as its pivot" will foil any aggression by the U.S.
Mark Feierstein, who served in the National Security Council under President Barack Obama, said it's hard to glean a direction for USA policy from Trump's actions in Syria because Trump "is not moored to any coherent ideology or set of ideas". Shortly after his election, he upended decades of diplomatic precedent by taking a call from the president of Taiwan and suggested he might use the island China considers its own territory as a bargaining chip in China-U.S. relations.
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