Some experts interpreted the strike as a warning to North Korea that the USA is prepared to act militarily to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.
Trump had joked to reporters on Thursday that he had "gotten nothing, absolutely nothing" from his first meeting with Xi - but they had developed a friendship he was sure would become "a very, very great relationship".
There was no awkward handshake and only broad smiles as U.S. President Donald Trump met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for the first time, Chinese media and analysts noted, with some even predicting that they would develop a good personal relationship as they share similar traits.
"The reality of today shows that we must stand against power with power and it proves a million times over that our decision to strengthen our nuclear deterrence has been the right choice".
In a possible harbinger of the kind of punishments Washington could inflict, a leading Chinese telecoms company, ZTE, was fined almost $900 million in March for shipping sensitive US -made technology to Iran in violation of USA sanctions. "We expect that those will continue to have an important effect on preventing people from doing business with them".
Haley said the US was prepared to take further action in Syria but hoped it wouldn't be necessary. The report did not name the official, which is common in KCNA reports.
Mr Tillerson said President Trump's trip to China would be a "state visit" in 2017, but gave no other details.
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They were, however, perhaps unfortunate not to win a penalty late on when Nacho Monreal touched the ball with his hand. I think he has a scan today and we'll know much more tomorrow". "But we forgot a little bit to play".
"For President Xi, this will be embarrassing internationally because in so many settings and so many venues China has condemned the United States for unilateral military action in the past, and this is certainly a unilateral action, " he said. Some $347 billion of the $502 billion trade deficit recorded by the US past year was with China. "I believe lots of very potentially bad problems will be going away". He did not elaborate.
US industry had hoped Trump would deliver a strong message to Xi behind closed doors to end what they see as discriminatory trade policies, but not do anything rash to spark a trade war.
China's public probably won't regard the strike as a message to their leaders unless the Trump administration makes the case explicitly, said Doug Paal, vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. The officials signaled that the trading relationship between the two countries and North Korea's nuclear program were at the top of the agenda during the meetings, which took place here over 24 hours at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
Trump and Xi also established a new and cabinet-level framework for negotiations, Spicer said.
"I don't have to have one specific way, and if the world changes, I go the same way, I don't change", Trump said Wednesday, a day after the chemical weapons attack in Syria that compelled him to order airstrikes against a government air base.
China's response was muted. British Prime Minister Theresa May's office said the action was "an appropriate response to the barbaric chemical weapons attack launched by the Syrian regime, and is meant to deter further attacks".
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