Xi Jinping Congratulates Trump, Urges ‘Right Way to Get Along’ and Managing Differences

Xi Jinping Congratulates Trump: Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Donald Trump on Thursday after he won the election and called for managing differences and dialogue between the two countries.

Trump won the White House yesterday in a big win over Democratic opponent Kamala Harris in the Over Office race.

According to reports, Xi wants the US and China to expand common interests.

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“I urge China and the US to expand mutually beneficial cooperation," Xi said. “I call for the right way for China, and the US to get along in the new era. Both the countries should strengthen dialogue and communication," he said.

Xi said China and the US benefit from cooperation and lose from confrontation and a stable and sustainable China-US relationship serves the two countries and the world.

Xi also hoped China and the US will stick to the principles of mutual respect and peaceful coexistence, strengthen dialogue and communication, manage differences and expand common interests.

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In his second term at the White House, Donald Trump may move pharmaceutical manufacturing out of China for the US market. He may try to buy and protect key minerals for high-tech manufacturing and will certainly continue to bring manufacturing back to the US, as The Diplomat said.

He will also launch a ‘witch hunt’ on anyone he considers a ‘Chinese spy’. This will bring the two economies to the brink of decoupling and disrupt more important research.

"The upcoming four years will provide new opportunities for the next US administration to take the overall picture of the China-US ties into account and strengthen dialogue and communication with China to properly handle the differences that exist between the world's two largest economies, which range from the Taiwan question to trade, and to the South China Sea," it said.

In his first term, Trump launched a trade war on China by imposing tariffs on over $380 billion of Chinese imports in 2018-19 and said China is stealing from America. His successor Joe Biden continued the tariffs and hurt China’s bottom line.

During the campaign, Trump threatened to put 60% tariffs on Chinese imports which last year was $427.2 billion.

Tensions between China and the US escalated over many issues including blocking Chinese tech.

He also accused China of the Covid-19 pandemic saying the virus came from a bio-lab in Wuhan.

The military relationship between the two countries was also bad during Trump’s previous term.

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