Relations with Xi Jinping, president of China, are "extraordinary". US President Donald Trump said so, according to which "progress has been made". These are the first words that emerge from the second day of the meeting between the leaders of the first and second largest economies in the world, gathered in the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Chinese President Xi Jinping had already said yesterday ready to work with Donald Trump to bring ties between China and the US to a new starting point: "There are a thousand reasons for relations to work and no reason for them to break down", said Xi, quoted by the New China agency, at the Mar-a- Lake, Florida. Since normalization 45 years ago, bilateral relations, between ups and downs, have made historic progress and brought enormous and pragmatic benefits to both populations, he added.
US President Donald Trump has accepted "with pleasure" the invitation made in Mar-a-Lago by the counterpart Xi Jinping to go to China in 2017: the tycoon, reports the New China agency quoting Beijing officials, expressed the hope “of being able to make the trip as soon as possible. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan were greeted by US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida ahead of a welcome dinner hosted by the Trumps in the 'White House in winter', the first appointment in the busy agenda of Xi's visit which ends today.
