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President Donald Trump said he forged a friendship with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, striking a positive tone in the early hours of the first-ever meeting between leaders of the world’s two biggest economies.
President Donald Trump said he forged a friendship with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, striking a positive tone in the early hours of the first-ever meeting between leaders of the world’s two biggest economies.
“We had a long discussion already and so far I have gotten nothing, absolutely nothing,” Trump joked on Thursday night at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida while dining with Xi, who arrived in the afternoon. “But we have developed a friendship. I can see that.”
“I think, long-term, we are going to have a very, very great relationship and I look very much forward to it,” Trump said.
Trump accepted Xi’s invitation to visit China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Xi told Trump that there were “a thousand reasons” to make the China-U.S. relationship work, with “no reason to break it.”
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