* Chinese President Xi Jinping engaged intensively on Thursday together with his host, U.S. President Donald Trump, on the White House throughout his state go to to the United States, reaching widespread understanding on many points.
* Xi’s go to comes lower than half a 12 months after Trump’s state go to to China in May, when the 2 presidents agreed to construct a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability.
* While China and the United States compete in AI, they’ve much more causes to cooperate, Xi stated, urging the 2 main international locations in AI to leverage respective strengths moderately than guard towards one another.
* At the state dinner, each presidents seemed again on the lengthy historical past of exchanges between the Chinese and American peoples, underscoring the significance of people-to-people ties.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — From a welcome ceremony and a proper assembly to a state dinner, Chinese President Xi Jinping engaged intensively on Thursday together with his host, U.S. President Donald Trump, on the White House throughout his state go to to the United States.
The two leaders performed honest and in-depth exchanges and reached widespread understanding on many points, which has added new substance to the constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability, and supplied new strategic steerage for China-U.S. relations.
PUTTING VISION INTO ACTION
“I am ready to work with you to steer the giant ship of China-U.S. relationship on a steady course toward the future,” Xi stated on the welcome ceremony on the White House.
Xi’s go to comes lower than half a 12 months after Trump’s state go to to China in May, when the 2 presidents agreed to construct a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability.
Later at his White House assembly with Trump, Xi known as for translating that imaginative and prescient into motion and discovering the suitable means for the 2 main international locations to get together with one another.
The two sides have to work towards a relationship that includes cooperation because the mainstay, reasonable competitors, manageable variations, and guarantees of peace, Xi stated.
Xi famous that China and the United States ought to, and absolutely can, obtain mutual profit and win-win outcomes by means of sensible cooperation, assist one another succeed by means of wholesome competitors, correctly handle variations by in search of widespread floor whereas respecting variations, and construct peace by fostering mutual belief, so {that a} constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability can higher profit the 2 peoples and other people world wide.
Trump, for his half, stated he and Xi are good buddies who’ve maintained in-depth and shut communication, and expressed confidence that U.S.-China relations could be dealt with effectively beneath the management of the 2 heads of state.
The meticulous preparations for Xi’s state go to, all the way down to the main points and with care and consideration, mirrored the significance Trump connected to Xi’s journey.
After receiving Xi in particular person on the airport in the future earlier, Trump hosted the grand welcome ceremony on the White House.
Xi and his spouse, Peng Liyuan, watched a efficiency by the United States Marines within the firm of the U.S. presidential couple. The ceremony additionally featured a army overview, with U.S. honor guards from totally different army companies performing conventional drills and taking part in instrumental music. Multiple fight plane flew over the White House in honor of the Chinese and U.S. presidents and their wives.
Following the talks, the 2 presidential {couples} met once more for the state dinner. Inside, crimson blossoms and crimson linens adorned the room, a alternative a White House launch stated mirrored the colour’s longstanding cultural significance in China.
“In less than half a year, the Chinese and American presidents have exchanged state visits, making history in our bilateral engagement,” Xi stated on the state dinner hosted by Trump.
The strongest sign to the world is that the leaders of the world’s two most consequential main international locations, although overtly aggressive, can meet in concord and with good spirit, which is the headline achievement, commented U.S. scholar Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
COOPERATION GOES BOTH WAYS
From Beijing in May to Washington in September, sensible cooperation has remained excessive on the agenda of China-U.S. interactions.
At the ceremony, Xi known as on the 2 international locations to “cooperate with sincerity.”
Xi stated the 2 sides share “deeply intertwined” pursuits and ample room for cooperation, noting that China-U.S. collaboration “may not solve every problem in the world,” however many could be laborious to resolve with out it.
During his talks with Trump, Xi stated the newest spherical of commerce and financial consultations between the 2 international locations had produced a brand new joint association, calling it good news for industries and other people of each international locations, in addition to the worldwide financial system.
Noting that cooperation is a two-way road, Xi stated so long as the 2 sides uphold the spirit of equality, mutual respect and mutual profit, they will discover a means out of issues.
The state dinner supplied one other glimpse of the breadth of financial ties between the 2 international locations. Executives from main U.S. aviation, expertise and monetary corporations had been among the many friends, together with some who had accompanied Trump to Beijing in May, comparable to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Artificial intelligence (AI) was one other space mentioned by the 2 leaders.
While China and the United States compete in AI, they’ve much more causes to cooperate, Xi stated, urging the 2 main international locations in AI to leverage respective strengths moderately than guard towards one another.
The two sides ought to hold AI beneath human management, uphold a human-centered method and use AI for good, making certain that it serves human progress, Xi added.
Trump additionally pressured the significance of sustaining dialogue on AI, calling it the expertise that bears on the way forward for humanity.
CARRYING ON FRIENDSHIP
At the state dinner, each presidents seemed again on the lengthy historical past of exchanges between the Chinese and American peoples, underscoring the significance of people-to-people ties.
Xi recalled how the 2 peoples stood shoulder to shoulder within the combat towards Japanese militarist aggression greater than 80 years in the past, and the way Ping-Pong Diplomacy reopened the door to bilateral exchanges greater than half a century in the past.
He additionally recounted the story of American Ronald Sakolsky, who supported Chinese desert management employee Yin Yuzhen’s tree-planting efforts greater than 20 years in the past, calling it a shining instance of pleasant exchanges between the 2 peoples.
Such exchanges, Xi stated, have promoted heart-to-heart communication between our peoples and strengthened public assist for China-U.S. friendship and cooperation.
Trump, in the meantime, reviewed the lengthy historical past of U.S.-China exchanges, pointing to early industrial ties and the alternate of “goods, knowledge, customs and ideas.”
“As the leaders of our two nations, President Xi and I both understand that we represent different systems, but the ties between our people endure, and we’ve never gotten along better,” Trump stated.
New steps at the moment are being taken to hold that friendship ahead.
At the welcome ceremony, Xi introduced that two pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, will quickly arrive at Zoo Atlanta and meet the American folks. He additionally invited 100,000 younger Americans to go to China for alternate and examine packages over the subsequent 5 years.
“The hope of the China-U.S. relationship lies in our people, and its future lies with the young,” Xi stated.
In 2023, throughout his go to to San Francisco, Xi introduced an analogous initiative inviting 50,000 younger Americans to China over 5 years. That goal has already been achieved.
“President Xi announced that he wants to double the number of students over the next five years. That’s very positive, very significant, because I believe that those kinds of exchanges and students going back and forth are very, very important,” stated Kenneth Quinn, president emeritus of the World Food Prize Foundation.