US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have "candid" and "positive" talks in Florida https://t.co/jOZR931xkf pic.twitter.com/U8VmpBTQ5a
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 9, 2017
You can just tell from their photos together these two men had excellent chemistry. pic.twitter.com/7wNeCbWCjl
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) April 9, 2017
(If by ‘chemistry’ you mean ‘they’re both thinking about the really strong hand sanitizer’)
The Washington Post:
PALM BEACH, Fla. — The United States and China wrapped up a two-day presidential summit here by announcing a 100-day plan to improve strained trade ties and boost cooperation between the rival nations…
Trump aides who participated in the talks described a productive first meeting between the leaders, saying they exhibited “positive” chemistry. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the two sides agreed to speed up trade talks to help close a lopsided imbalance in China’s favor, a common campaign-trail complaint of Trump’s.
Trump advisers said the goal, at least from the U.S. side, was to increase American exports to China. But they offered no details about how they planned to achieve that.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said there was “acknowledgment” from the Chinese side “that we do need to get to a more balanced trade environment.”
But the surprise U.S. military response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians threw a wild card into the summit…
Serious readers only: “Trump had his first big foreign policy challenge. So what did we learn?”
Trump ordered Syrian air strike before dinner with Xi https://t.co/kBPRRnzTV8 pic.twitter.com/GYLs1G7Hmu
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) April 8, 2017
"Guess what I just did. Come on, guess. It's tremendous. Brian Williams will go insane for this." https://t.co/6NNtfb5HVc
— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 8, 2017
Evan Osnos, in the New Yorker:
… Trump always promised to behave this way—“We’re so predictable. We’re like bad checker players,” he said during the campaign—but, for China, handling the new President just got more complicated.
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