At U.S.-China summit, Trump presses Xi on trade, North Korea; progress cited
Source: Reuters
President Donald Trump pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping to do more to curb North Korea's nuclear program and help reduce the gaping U.S. trade deficit with Beijing in talks on Friday, even as he toned down the strident anti-China rhetoric of his election campaign.
Trump spoke publicly of progress on a range of issues in his first U.S.-China summit – as did several of his top aides – but they provided few concrete specifics other than China's agreement to work together to narrow disagreements and find common ground for cooperation.
As the two leaders wrapped up a Florida summit overshadowed by U.S. missile strikes in Syria overnight, Xi joined Trump in stressing the positive mood of the meetings while papering over deep differences that have caused friction between the world's two biggest economies.
Trump's aides insisted he had made good on his pledge to raise concerns about China's trade practices and said there was some headway, with Xi agreeing to a 100-day plan for trade talks aimed at boosting U.S. exports and reducing China's trade surplus with the United States.
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Interesting how the missile strike in Syria totally obscured these huge talks... my guess is the Trump people really wanted to deflect attention away from the meeting, in case they didn't go well. And people were predicting Trump would get taken advantage of by the Chinese, since Trump is so clueless.
Certainly, Trump talked so much smack about the Chinese during the campaign, saying really crazy inflammatory things, but seems to have been very low key in this summit.
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