Xi “urges Trump to honour One-China policy, key bilateral statements”

July 4, 2017

BEIJING - China hopes the United States will appropriately address issues regarding Taiwan by honouring the one-China policy and the three key bilateral joint statements made to date, President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump in a telephone conversation on Monday, ac cording to the China Daily.

The newspaper reported Xi as saying bilateral ties have been bolstered in important ways since his meeting with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago resort in the US in April, he but added that ties are also "impacted by some negative factors".

The two largest world economies should "focus on co-operation and manage and control their differences", Xi was reported as saying.

“The conversation came at a time when two-way ties have been strained by Washington's recently unveiled plan to sell arms to Taiwan and the incursion of a warship into Chinese territorial waters off the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea,” China Daily reported.

“Observers warned that if Washington fails to do damage control, ties between the countries may fray, as an arms deal betrays the one-China policy.”  www.webershandwick.cn (ATI).