Trump Told Advisers He Wants to Visit China as President

I just spoke to Chairman Xi Jinping of China. The call was a very good one for both China and the U.S.A.,

Trump wrote on Friday on Truth Social

President Xi and I will do everything possible to make the World more peaceful and safe!”

Trump said

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One of the things that President Trump did so effectively in his first four years is that he knows that if you want to change something with the country, whether it be an adversary or whether it be a rival, or in the case of China … you have to be able to talk to them and say, ‘This is what we want to do,

Trump adviser Jason Miller told CNN’s Jessica Dean on Saturday

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Does that mean that we’re going to be buddy-buddy? No, not at all. If anything, it means that President Trump can be tougher directly with them,

Miller said

Trump took that to mean Xi wanted to show how much he respected him,

said the adviser, who was involved in the trip

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He sees his relationship with the Chinese president as a stand-in for the American relationship with Beijing,

the person said, pointing to Trump’s efforts to cultivate Xi during his first term in office — including an early invitation to Mar-a-Lago for talks over chocolate cake, and a visit to Beijing in 2017 that was meant to deepen their personal ties

It is my expectation that we will solve many problems together, and starting immediately. We discussed balancing Trade, Fentanyl, TikTok, and many other subjects,

Trump said in a post to Truth Social

The US side must establish a correct understanding of China, cease unwarranted attacks and smear campaigns against China,

foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told a regular briefing