'Fantastic Relationship, Normal To Have Friction': US President Donald Trumps Meets Chinese Counterpart Xi Jinping In South Korea; Here's What Both Leaders Said

United States President Donald Trump on Thursday, October 30, met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in South Korea after six years. US. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick accompanied Trump, while Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was also present at the bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Busan, South Korea.

During the meeting, the US President termed ties with China as a "fantastic relationship". He also called Jinping “a great leader of a great country".

“It’s a great honour to be with a friend of mine, really for a long time now — the very, very distinguished and respected President of China. We’ve already agreed to a lot of things, and we’ll agree to some more right now, but President Xi is a great leader of a great country, and I think we’re going to have a fantastic relationship for a long period of time," Trump said during the meeting.

Meanwhile, Jinping said that Beijing and Washington could work together to achieve "more great and concrete things." He also pointed out that "It is normal to have friction", but the ties should on right direction.

"China and the US can jointly shoulder our responsibility as major countries and work together to accomplish more great and concrete things for the good of our two countries and the whole world," the Chinese President stated as quoted by NDTV.

The two leaders held discussions at a South Korean air base. The meeting took place amid the ongoing tariff war between the two largest economies in the world.

news