The President of China, Xi Jinping, has declared that Washington and Beijing should “never destroy” the bilateral relationship, emphasizing partnership over rivalry, reports Anadolu.

“Achieving the great renaissance of the Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand in hand. We can help each other succeed and advance the well-being of the whole world,” Xi said while addressing Trump and the American delegation. a state banquet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

“We both believe that the China-US relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. We must make it work and never destroy it,” Xi stressed.

Trump is on a three-day state visit to China, the first by a sitting US president in nine years. Xi and Trump held a bilateral summit earlier in the day, which the White House described as a “good meeting”.

Although Xi did not mention Taiwan in his speech during the banquet, he usually uses the term “great renaissance of the Chinese nation” to mean “Taiwan’s reunification” with mainland China.

“Under the new situation, President Trump and I are fully aware of the expectations of the two between our nations and the international community, we have held many meetings and phone calls and kept China-US relations generally stable,” Xi said.

Describing Trump’s visit as “historic,” the Chinese leader said: “Both China and the United States benefit from cooperation and lose from confrontation; our two countries should be partners, not rivals.” Emphasizing that the world today is changing and turbulent, Xi said that China-US relations affect and affect interests. of over 8 billion people in the world. “Both sides must rise to the level of this historic responsibility and steer the giant ship of China-US relations forward steadily and in the right direction,” he added.

The Chinese president said Trump “agreed” to build a “constructive China-US relationship with strategic stability” for “stable, sound and long-term development” of bilateral relations, with the aim of “bringing more peace, prosperity and progress to

Xi and Trump are expected to meet again on Friday for a traditional Chinese tea ceremony as well as a working lunch before Air Force One takes the US president home.

Trump is accompanied by US top diplomat Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a rare occurrence for a Pentagon chief.

Pete and his Chinese counterpart, Dong Jun, were seen talked in the Great Hall of the People before Xi and Trump entered the hall for dinner.

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