US, China can solve all global problems together: Trump
November 09, 2017
United States President Donald Trump on Thursday sought China’s cooperation in solving North Korea’s nuclear crisis as well as other global problems of ‘great danger’ as he held talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to boost bilateral ties.
“I just want to thank you for the warm welcome and I look forward to many years of success and friendship, working together to solve not only our problems, but world problems and problems of great danger and security,” Trump said.
Discussion on how to deal with North Korea’s threats to the region has dominated Trump’s agenda.
Earlier, Trump was given a lavish welcome with a guard of honour and 21-gun salute when he arrived at the Great Hall of the People before his talks with Xi, which were confined to delegations.
Thanking Xi for Wednesday’s welcome at the 15h century Forbidden City, he said the dinner which planned for 20 minutes went on for two hours.
“We enjoyed every minute of it with your beautiful wife and Melania together. Their relationship is a great one and our relationship has already proven to be a great one,” he said.
“Our meeting this morning in front of my representatives and your representatives was excellent, discussing North Korea. And I do believe there’s a solution to that as you do,” he said.
“We must act fast. And hopefully China will act faster and more effectively on this problem than anyone,” Trump said.
Referring to over $370 billion imbalance in bilateral trade in favour of China, Trump blamed the previous US administrations for it.
But we’ll make it fair and it’ll be tremendous to both of us,” he said.
On his friendship with Xi, he said ‘my feeling toward you is an incredibly warm one. As we said there’s great chemistry and I think we’re going to do tremendous things both for China and the United States’.
“And it is a very, very great honour to be with you,” he said.
Earlier, welcoming Trump, Xi said, “We have had in-depth exchange of view since yesterday (Wednesday) on the China-US relations and importance of issues of shared interest. We reached many common understandings”.
For China and the US, cooperation is the only viable choice and win-win cooperation can take us to a better future, he said.
“We agree that the China-US relations have made important progress this year. We have agreed to further promote strategic guidance of summit diplomacy for bilateral relations,” he said.(Agencies)
