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To start with, he talks about putting America first. And he also fought a trade war with China. These are the two things that left the deepest impression on me,
Zhang Yu, 44, said
He's been fighting (trade wars) for years, but it's never brought any benefit to either country or to the world,
Zhang saidOf course as Chinese people we hope to put China first,
the IT worker told AFP outside a McDonald's in downtown BeijingI don't think the relationship between the US and China is going to improve... (but) I hope it won't be too intense,
the 22-year-old told AFPThe only reliable thing about Trump is that you can never rely on him,
she saidI think Trump is quite a shrewd person. Of course, he cultivates an image in public of being a man of the people,
he saidWhat I can see is that China's economy is not very good at the moment, due to the impact of the pandemic, and (the fact that) Trump himself is a crazy, wild person (doesn't help matters on our side),
said a Beijing resident surnamed Wang, 36.
(Han ... Han Zheng) is seen as someone, because of his time in Shanghai, who understands the concerns of the foreign business community, he understands the economy,
Michael Hart, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, told Reuters in BeijingFrom now on, until the situation becomes a little bit clearer, all our US clients have to pay in advance,
said Dominic Desmarais, chief solutions officer at Lira Solutions, a Suzhou-based firm that connects Chinese manufacturers with overseas buyers of everything from toys to furniture and titanium productsIf Donald Trump actually imposes 40 per cent, or whatever, duties on Chinese products coming into the United States, I don't want to be stuck with custom-made goods for specific clients that just disappear,
he addedBut I would imagine US institutional investors would continue cutting back on their Chinese exposure,
he saidI 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
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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
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 saidTrump took that to mean Xi wanted to show how much he respected him,
said the adviser, who was involved in the trip
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 tiesIt 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