ABC News Online: China's Xi Jinping tells Donald Trump cooperation is 'only correct choice' in first conversation
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told US President-elect Donald Trump in a telephone call that cooperation was the only choice for relations between the two countries, in their first interaction since the election.
Mr Trump had lambasted China throughout the US election campaign, drumming up headlines with his pledges to slap 45 per cent tariffs on imported Chinese goods and to label the country a currency manipulator on his first day in office.
His election has injected uncertainty into bilateral relations at a time when Beijing hopes for stability as it faces daunting reform challenges at home, a slowing economy, and a leadership reshuffle of its own that will put a new party elite around Mr Xi in late 2017.
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WNU Editor: Not counting the wars and Russia (and to a lesser extent Iran and North Korea) .... this is going to be President Trump's biggest and most difficult foriegn policy issue.
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