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Trump means what he says when it comes to tariffs,
wrote Josh Lipsky, the senior director at the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center, in a note last week They must not be challenged,
said Xi, according to a statement after the two leaders' meeting on the sidelines of the 31st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Lima, Peru The immediate need now is to preserve, enhance, and solidify communication between the two countries,
We hope China will continue to champion the message of keeping the global trade system open,
said Carlos Aquino, director of the Center for Asian Studies at Peru's National University of San Marcos The United States can save itself the huge costs that would result from battling China across key issues by adopting a mutually beneficial path,
said Denis Simon, a long-time U.S.-China relations specialist and former Executive Vice Chancellor at Duke Kunshan University Mutual respect, greater cross-cultural sensitivity, and enhanced reciprocity can lead to win-win outcomes,
The next generation must continue engaging with one another, not only to reduce misunderstandings but also to deepen the pool of China expertise within the United States,
The Thucydides Trap is not a historical inevitability. A new Cold War should not be fought and cannot be won,
said Xi during the meeting on the sidelines of the 31st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Peru's capital Lima As the political dust settles from this election cycle, people-to-people exchanges will be just as crucial as diplomatic ones,
he said, referring to the just finished U.S. presidential election, where former U.S. President Donald Trump won the race It is important that the message of (safeguarding) a free and open trade system will continue being advocated by President Xi,
These are the most important guardrails and safety net for China-U.S. relations,
CCTV reported Xi as saying The separatist actions of 'Taiwan independence' are incompatible with peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,
The incoming administration is not in the business of providing us assurances about anything, and they'll make their own decisions as they go forward,
These conversations prevent miscalculations and they ensure the competition between our two countries will not veer into conflict,
The United States has recently concluded its elections. China’s goal of a stable, healthy and sustainable China-US relationship remains unchanged,
He reiterated that the United States opposes any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side, that we expect cross-Strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means, and that the world has an interest in peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,
the White House readout said The two leaders affirmed the need to maintain human control over the decision to use nuclear weapons,
If we take each other as rival or adversary, pursue vicious competition and seek to hurt each other, we would roil the relationship or even set it back.”
I charged China hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes and tariffs. They paid us,
Trump boasted at his final campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on November 4. I got along very well with President Xi. He’s a great guy. He wrote me a beautiful note the other day when he heard about what happened,
Trump said after the assassination attempt on him in July
