US President Donald Trump highly appreciated his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea today, Reuters reported, BTA reported.
Trump said that if he had to rate the meeting on a scale of 1 to 10, he would give it a 12. The US head of state also said that he will visit China in April next year and that a visit by Xi Jinping to the United States is also planned.
The meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in the South Korean city of Busan has ended, China Central Television reported today. The conversation between the two leaders lasted an hour and 40 minutes.
Trump and Xi shook hands after their meeting and did not make any statements to the media after their conversation, Agence France-Presse reported. Reuters reported that Trump flew from South Korea aboard the presidential plane "Air Force One".
When they met, the two leaders shook hands and told each other they were happy to see each other again. It was their first meeting since 2019, when they spoke in the Japanese city of Osaka at a meeting of G-20 leaders. Before they left for talks, Trump said the Chinese leader was very good at standing his ground in negotiations, but he also expressed optimism that their meeting today would be "very successful".
"I have no doubt that the meeting will be very successful, but he is a tough negotiator," Trump said as he shook hands with Xi.
Xi Jinping said it was normal for the world's two leading economies to have disagreements from time to time.
A few days ago, trade negotiators from the two countries reached "fundamental consensus on addressing the main concerns. I am ready to continue working with President Trump to lay a solid foundation for China-US relations," the Chinese leader said, BTA reports.
"China and the US can jointly shoulder their responsibilities as world powers and work together to implement ambitious and concrete projects, benefiting both countries and the whole world," Xi Jinping said. After these initial statements, the leaders began their bilateral meeting, together with their delegations. Donald Trump did not want to answer a journalist's question regarding his statement, made just before the meeting with Xi, that he had ordered the Pentagon to immediately begin nuclear weapons tests.