China: Trump Is Finally ‘Learning His Role’ In The Relationship

In his first phone call with President Xi Jinping since taking office last month, US President Donald Trump on Friday reaffirmed Washington’s decades-old one-China policy.

“President Trump agreed, at the request of President Xi, to honour our “One-China” policy”, the statement said.

Peter Navarro as a trade adviser, while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said the US should deny China access to artificial reefs it built in the South China Sea.

The policy is the result of a civil war dating back 90 years, when competing factions took control of both China and Taiwan. “Indeed, the Chinese media was certainly agitated by Trump’s action, stating that he was “ignorant as a child” and warning, “‘One China’ can not be traded”.

Both leaders extended invitations to meet in their respective countries.

According to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Xi told Trump that the two countries faced a complex global landscape and countless challenges making it even more necessary and urgent for China and the U.S. to strengthen cooperation.

However, since his inauguration, Trump had remained conspicuously silent on the issue, leaving many to wonder what his China policy would actually look like now that he’s in office.

According to Chinese media, Xi told Trump that he appreciated Washington’s adherence to the one-China policy and reiterated how central it is to China-US relations. “I think we are on the process of getting along very well and I think that we’ll also be very much of a benefit to Japan”, Trump told reporters at a joint news conference with the visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

“Effectively tackling China-US ties serves the very interest of the two peoples and is an expected duty shouldered by China and the US, the two major countries, for the world”, Xi said.

US President Donald Trump sent President Xi Jinping new year’s well wishes on Wednesday, four days before the end of China’s Spring Festival celebrations.

“And fortunately the two countries do not have to reinvent the wheel as there are abundant channels of communication between them”.

The New York Time reports that it was hand-delivered to China’s ambassador by National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who had also spoken to China’s top foreign policy official last week. “The daughter understands more than the father”.