Trump and Xi spoke by telephone Tuesday night, just days after their two-day gathering at the president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
In a newspaper interview and a White House news conference Wednesday, Trump hailed the rapport he developed with Xi during last week's Florida summit, which seems to have yielded an immediate easing of tensions related to the U.S.
Spicer said Trump underscored the need for China to take concrete steps to level the playing field for American workers, stressing repeatedly the need for reciprocal market access.
Beijing has increased pressure and imposed restrictions on some South Korean firms doing business in China, which led many in the South to believe Beijing was retaliating against the Thaad deployment. He didn't specify North Korea, but the context was clear enough.
Abe conveyed to his US counterpart Japan's support for "the USA resolve to fulfill its responsibility to prevent the proliferation and use of chemical weapons", according to a Japanese official.
H.R. McMaster says there is no contradiction between comments by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who says IS must be defeated first, and Nikki Haley, the USA ambassador to the United Nations who contends that getting Assad out is a priority.
Pyongyang continues to be a thorn in the side of the USA and its regional allies, and North Korea remains unrepentant, refusing to modify its nuclear weapons program or come to the negotiating table. War with the North would send shock waves throughout the Pacific, but it would likely create huge headaches and hard-to-manage consequences around the difficult, but essential, relationship between Washington and Beijing.
Trump had promised during the campaign to stop what he called the theft of American jobs by China.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the Chinese had expressed an interest in reducing China's trade surplus as a way of controlling their own inflation.
The two leaders established US China Comprehensive Dialogue, elevating their dialogue status.
US officials noted that the timing of the strike had the possible added benefit of signaling to China that Trump is willing to make good on his threat to act alone to stop North Korea's nuclear pursuits if Beijing doesn't exert more pressure on Pyongyang.
During President Jinping's two-day trip to the southeastern U.S. coastal town of Palm Beach, the leaders of the world's top two economies compared notes on a wide range of topics for more than seven hours altogether and agreed to expand win-win cooperation and manage differences on the basis of mutual respect.
Comedian Charlie Murphy dead at 57
The stand-up comedian and actor had been battling the disease before he passed away in hospital in NY , his manager confirmed . He most recently starred in Adult Swim's Black Jesus . "Starz sends our deepest condolences to Charlie's family and friends".
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, meanwhile, accused the United States of "playing the terrorism game" during his first phone talks with his USA counterpart Rex Tillerson since the U.S. air strikes on Syria last week.
The moves comes as concerns grow about North Korea's advancing weapons program.
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - President Donald Trump says his meetings with China's President Xi Jinping went well but as for any progress on trade "only time will tell".
In a letter addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate president pro tempore Orrin Hatch, Trump gave details on the missile strike on the Shayrat military airfield, launched in retaliation for an apparent regime chemical attack that left scores dead, including children, in the north of the country.
Trump and other USA officials have repeatedly called on China to leverage its status as North Korea's biggest economic partner and source of food and fuel aid to force Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
But the meetings were overshadowed by Trump's decision to launch a missile strike against Syria even while he dined with Xi at a formal dinner Thursday night.
Xi also invited Trump to visit China later this year, and Trump accepted the invitation, he said.
The Trump administration has emphasized that Washington could place additional unilateral sanctions on North Korea, as well as measures against Chinese banks and companies engaged in illegal transactions with North Korea.
"If the United States gets trapped in Syria, how can Trump make America great again?"
Some Chinese analysts viewed the strike's timing as no coincidence.
US actions have infuriated Russian Federation, which compared them to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "All of us are feeling very good about the results of this summit".
Comments