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发帖数: 4796 | 1 President Trump Is 'Very Thankful' for Xi Jinping's Conciliatory
Talk on Trade
The U.S. president said he appreciated the Chinese leader's "kind
words" at the Boao Forum
Eli Meixler
President Donald Trump has welcomed remarks made by his Chinese counterpart
Xi Jinping at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference that seemed intended
to deescalate a brewing trade war.
Trump said he was “very thankful” for his Chinese counterpart and hailed
“great progress” to be made by the jousting superpowers.
In a tweet Wednesday, the U.S. president said he appreciated Xi’s “kind
words on tariffs and automobile barriers” as well as his “enlightenment on
intellectual property and technology transfers,” a key sticking point of U
.S.-Chinese trade disputes.
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The U.S. contends that China pressures American companies into handing over
valuable technologies in exchange for the right to access Chinese markets.
Those concerns, as well as the administration’s anxiety about America’s
trade deficit with China, drove Trump to raise tariffs 25% last week on $50
billion worth of Chinese goods, prompting Beijing to respond in kind,
targeting agriculture products like pork, wine, and soybeans.
Global markets teetered with uncertainty as Trump threatened to impose
tariffs on another $100 billion of goods last week, but have rallied in the
wake of Xi’s remarks.
At the Boao Forum, dubbed “Asia’s Davos,” he cautioned against the return
of a “Cold War mentality” and criticized the “zero-sum” posture of the
trade dispute.
“We should act on the vision of common, cooperative, and sustainable
security and firmly uphold the international order and system underpinned by
the principles in the U.N. charter,” Xi told conference attendees in Boao,
China.
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