Winehole23
01-17-2025, 02:12 PM
If Trump plays his cards right, he can do business with China in the future
China's (https://www.axios.com/world/china) leader Xi Jinping is sending a top envoy to attend President-elect Trump's inauguration (https://www.axios.com/2025/01/14/trump-inauguration-flags-capitol-half-staff) in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Beijing confirmed.
Why it matters: The "unprecedented" deployment of Xi's special representative, Vice President Han Zheng, is intended to reduce tensions with the U.S. after Trump threatened to impose major tariffs on China (https://www.axios.com/2024/11/26/trump-tariffs-canada-china-mexico) and other countries, per the Financial Times (https://www.ft.com/content/68ac33bd-2b5b-4c47-9b60-3c55cc96acda), which first reported the news.
Trump invited Xi (https://www.axios.com/2024/12/12/trump-xi-inauguration-invitation) to attend his inauguration ceremony to create "an open dialogue with leaders of countries that are not just our allies but our adversaries and our competitors, too," incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365900704112) last month.
What they're saying: "China follows the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation in viewing and growing its relationship with the United States," per a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement (https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xw/wsrc/202501/t20250117_11536969.html) posted Friday morning local time.
"We stand ready to work with the new U.S. government to enhance dialogue and communication, properly manage differences, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, jointly pursue a stable, healthy and sustainable China-U.S. relationship and find the right way for the two countries to get along with each other."
Flashback: Beijing's actions are in stark contrast to President Biden's Inauguration Day (https://www.axios.com/2021/01/20/biden-harris-inauguration-2020-election) four years ago, when Beijing imposed (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/rebuked-china-echoes-biden-s-call-better-angels-heal-relations-n1255116) sanctions on officials from the first Trump administration (https://www.axios.com/2021/01/20/trump-sanctions-china-pompeo-navarro-bannon).
Go deeper: How U.S. policy toward China transformed under Trump's first administration (https://www.axios.com/2021/01/19/trump-china-policy-special-report)
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/17/china-trump-inauguration-xi-vice-president
China's (https://www.axios.com/world/china) leader Xi Jinping is sending a top envoy to attend President-elect Trump's inauguration (https://www.axios.com/2025/01/14/trump-inauguration-flags-capitol-half-staff) in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Beijing confirmed.
Why it matters: The "unprecedented" deployment of Xi's special representative, Vice President Han Zheng, is intended to reduce tensions with the U.S. after Trump threatened to impose major tariffs on China (https://www.axios.com/2024/11/26/trump-tariffs-canada-china-mexico) and other countries, per the Financial Times (https://www.ft.com/content/68ac33bd-2b5b-4c47-9b60-3c55cc96acda), which first reported the news.
Trump invited Xi (https://www.axios.com/2024/12/12/trump-xi-inauguration-invitation) to attend his inauguration ceremony to create "an open dialogue with leaders of countries that are not just our allies but our adversaries and our competitors, too," incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365900704112) last month.
What they're saying: "China follows the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation in viewing and growing its relationship with the United States," per a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement (https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xw/wsrc/202501/t20250117_11536969.html) posted Friday morning local time.
"We stand ready to work with the new U.S. government to enhance dialogue and communication, properly manage differences, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, jointly pursue a stable, healthy and sustainable China-U.S. relationship and find the right way for the two countries to get along with each other."
Flashback: Beijing's actions are in stark contrast to President Biden's Inauguration Day (https://www.axios.com/2021/01/20/biden-harris-inauguration-2020-election) four years ago, when Beijing imposed (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/rebuked-china-echoes-biden-s-call-better-angels-heal-relations-n1255116) sanctions on officials from the first Trump administration (https://www.axios.com/2021/01/20/trump-sanctions-china-pompeo-navarro-bannon).
Go deeper: How U.S. policy toward China transformed under Trump's first administration (https://www.axios.com/2021/01/19/trump-china-policy-special-report)
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/17/china-trump-inauguration-xi-vice-president