Trump Told Advisers He Wants to Visit China as President

I just spoke to Chairman Xi Jinping of China. The call was a very good one for both China and the U.S.A.,

Trump wrote on Friday on Truth Social

President Xi and I will do everything possible to make the World more peaceful and safe!”

Trump said

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Does that mean that we’re going to be buddy-buddy? No, not at all. If anything, it means that President Trump can be tougher directly with them,

Miller said

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One of the things that President Trump did so effectively in his first four years is that he knows that if you want to change something with the country, whether it be an adversary or whether it be a rival, or in the case of China … you have to be able to talk to them and say, ‘This is what we want to do,

Trump adviser Jason Miller told CNN’s Jessica Dean on Saturday

Trump took that to mean Xi wanted to show how much he respected him,

said the adviser, who was involved in the trip

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He sees his relationship with the Chinese president as a stand-in for the American relationship with Beijing,

the person said, pointing to Trump’s efforts to cultivate Xi during his first term in office — including an early invitation to Mar-a-Lago for talks over chocolate cake, and a visit to Beijing in 2017 that was meant to deepen their personal ties

The US side must establish a correct understanding of China, cease unwarranted attacks and smear campaigns against China,

foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told a regular briefing

There are a lot of policy areas where EU member states have to agree on them unanimously and China could use its friendly relationship with certain member states to veto certain parts of the EU’s foreign policy agenda,

Simalcik said

Senior Chinese officials believe the incoming Trump administration will be more hawkish toward China, so Beijing needs to try to take U.S. allies out of Washington’s orbit,

Chen Yuhua, a China studies professor at Akita International University, told VOA in a video interview

China always has this anxiety that the U.S. and EU would work together to deal with China, so the upcoming regime change in Washington presents an opportunity [for Beijing] to exploit the anxiety that European countries have about the second Trump administration,

Matej Simalcik, executive director of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, told VOA in an interview in Taipei

Compared to their ‘wolf warrior diplomacy’ during the first Trump administration, China’s current diplomatic approach has become more delicate,

he told VOA

China thinks Japan and other countries’ growing alignment on issues such as the South China Sea dispute, economic security and resilience policy are against its core interests,

he told VOA by phone

The EU and China are important trading partners. Our relations need to be balanced and based on a level-playing field,

Costa wrote in a post on the social media platform X

China remains confident in the EU and hopes the EU will also prove to be a trustworthy cooperation partner for China,

he said