President Xi Jinping has said China and the United States should cultivate mutual trust and properly handle their differences as he kicked off the annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the two nations in Beijing.
“We should enhance the mutual trust between our two countries,” Xi said in opening remarks on Monday morning.
He also called for both sides to have regular contact to establish “fundamental strategic mutual trust”.
The high-level meetings come amid tensions between China and the US over Beijing’s territorial claims in disputed areas of the South China Sea.
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