During their final meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru, Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged to work with incoming US President Donald Trump, acknowledging tensions over the past four years under current President Joe Biden, but highlighting progress in lowering tensions on trade and Taiwan. Xi expressed China’s readiness to maintain communication, expand cooperation, and manage differences with the new US administration, while Biden emphasized the importance of preventing strategic competition from escalating into conflict and acknowledged past disagreements with Xi, including discussions on combatting narcotics and climate change during their three face-to-face meetings in San Francisco and the continuation of Trump-era tariffs on China’s electric cars, solar panels, and steels.
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