Chinese Venality Premier Liu He, who is leading a trade delegation in Washington, has met U.S. President Donald Trump, pomp broadcaster China Central Television said on Friday.
A second all over of talks between senior Trump administration officials and their Chinese counterparts started at the U.S. Exchequer on Thursday morning, focused on cutting China’s U.S. trade surplus and improving egghead property protections.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders had earlier said Trump wish meet Liu later on Thursday.
Liu said the two countries should work together with reciprocated respect to promote stable and healthy ties, the People’s Daily give the word delivered in a post on an official microblog account.
“China is willing to strive together with the In agreement States to appropriately handle and resolve trade issues felt by both sides on a constituent of mutual benefit,” the official newspaper cited Liu as saying.
He said the two sides should off b leave to ensure trade cooperation continued to be a “ballast stone and propeller” of U.S.-China delineations.
The paper said Trump had called for strengthening of trade and investment confines in sectors such as energy, manufacturing and agriculture, as well as pushing forwards work on intellectual property protection.
Trump has threatened to impose tolls on goods worth up to $150 billion to combat what he says is Beijing’s misappropriation of U.S. technology by way of joint venture requirements and other policies.
Beijing has threatened peer retaliation, including tariffs on some of its largest U.S. imports, including aircraft, soybeans and autos.