meet in Beijing<\/a> for a summit.<\/p>\nTrump arrived in China with accolades for his host, calling Xi a \u201cgreat leader\u201d and \u201cfriend\u201d and extending an invitation for Xi to visit the White House in September.<\/p>\n
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Beyond the pomp as he welcomed Trump, Xi in less effusive tones said the two sides \u201cshould be partners and not rivals\u201d and highlighted the issue of Taiwan \u2013 which Beijing claims as its territory \u2013 straight off the bat.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations,\u201d Xi said on Thursday, according to remarks published by Chinese state media shortly after the start of the talks, which lasted two hours and 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf mishandled, the two nations could collide or even come into conflict, pushing the entire China-US relationship into a highly perilous situation,\u201d Xi added.<\/p>\n
With Trump\u2019s approval ratings dented \u2060by a war with Iran that shows no signs of abating, the first visit by a US president to China in nearly a decade has taken on added significance as he searches for economic wins.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are those who say this may be the biggest summit ever,\u201d Trump told Xi in brief opening remarks after a ceremony that featured an honour guard and throngs of children waving flowers and flags at Beijing\u2019s Great Hall of the People.<\/p>\n
Xi told Trump that preparatory negotiations between US and Chinese economic and trade teams in South Korea on Wednesday had reached \u201cbalanced and positive outcomes\u201d, China\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a summary of the remarks.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera\u2019s Katrina Yu, reporting from Beijing, said the \u201coverall message from Beijing to the US is that China is willing to be flexible and accept a level of disagreement on various issues \u2013 Iran, trade or technology\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there is one issue China and President Xi cannot be flexible on. That is Taiwan,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd everything that Beijing has offered in the last few hours \u2013 niceties, friendliness, reaching out a hand to cooperate more closely \u2013 is not free and is conditional on one thing: Washington accepts that there is only one China and that Beijing is very serious about getting Taiwan under its control.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chinese leader cautions the US president that disagreement over Taiwan could send relations down a dangerous path…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[252,250,12,50,10,11,4692,17,1109],"class_list":{"0":"post-71012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-trump","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-potus","13":"tag-president-of-the-united-states","14":"tag-trade-war","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-us-canada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116573216633293693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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