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Robert Delaney

China and the US have wrapped up their two-day presidential summit with a bold 100-day plan to tackle their trade disputes and explore new ways to enhance military dialogue.
But the two sides appeared to be at odds over how to deal with North Korea, even though both agreed to rein in the reclusive state’s nuclear weapons programme.
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US President Donald Trump dropped his anti-China rhetoric during talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, saying he had made “tremendous progress in our relationship with China”.
A key achievement cited by the US side was an action plan to address trade imbalances between the two nations, a common complaint in the United States.
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“Normally, trade discussions, especially between China and ourselves, are denominated in multiple years,” US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said after the talks on Friday, US time. “This was denominated in the first instance in 100 days with, hopefully, way-stations of accomplishment along the way.”
Ross did not give details of the plan.

“That may be ambitious, but it’s a very big sea change in the pace of discussions. And I think that’s a very, very important symbolisation of the growing rapport between the two countries,” he said.
On the Chinese side, Xi said Beijing welcomed America’s participation in the massive One Belt, One Road plan. The Chinese initiative aims to boost infrastructure and trade links with nations from Asia to Africa.
Trump minds his manners for a smiling Xi at Florida retreat
Xi was also quoted by state news agency Xinhua as saying that both their militaries should enhance mutual trust and fully utilise the soon-to-be-established dialogue mechanism between the chief of joint staff of the two nations.


On North Korea, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said both sides agreed to increase cooperation and work with the international community to push North Korea to abandon its “illicit weapons programmes”.
How Trump-Xi talks in Mar-a-Lago were influenced before a word was said
But in signs that showed the two nations were divided over the issue, Tillerson said there was “no kind of a package arrangement to resolve this” and that the US was prepared to act alone.
“President Trump indicated to President Xi ... that we would be happy to work with them, but we understand it creates unique problems for them and challenges and that we would, and are, prepared to chart our own course if this is something China is just unable to coordinate with us.”


The two leaders’ first face-to-face meeting was overshadowed by the US’ military strike against Syria on Thursday.
Trump tells Xi of Syria missile attack over Thursday night dinner in Mar-a-Lago
Observers said the missile attack against Syria was a warning to North Korea and that it also showed Trump was inclined to use the military power at his disposal.
Trump informed Xi of the attack as his dinner with the Chinese leader at Mar-a-Lago concluded, more than four hours after Trump gave the order to strike, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters covering the two leaders’ summit in Florida.




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US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping walk along the front patio of the Mar-a-Lago estate after a bilateral meeting in Palm Beach, Florida on Friday. Photo: Reuters

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US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping walk along the front patio of the Mar-a-Lago estate after a bilateral meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

This US Navy handout photo obtained March 15, 2017 shows the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), foreground,as it transits the East China Sea with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Murasame-class destroyer JS Samidare (DD 106) on March 9, 2017. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is on a western Pacific deployment as part of the US Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of US 3rd Fleet.A nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on March 15, 2017 for joint military exercises, the US Navy said, in the latest show of force against the North. The USS Carl Vinson berthed in the southern port of Busan as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson began a tour of the region, where tensions have spiked in recent weeks with missile launches from the nuclear-armed North and the brazen assassination of Kim Jong-Un's half-brother in Malaysia. / AFP PHOTO / US NAVY / MC2 Sean M. Castellano / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP

FILE PHOTO: A container area is seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the newly announced Shanghai Free Trade Zone, south of Shanghai September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

epa05698138 The national flags of the US (L) and Taiwan (C) fly side by side at a joint venture company in New City, Taiwan, 04 January 2017. China is increasingly worried about Taiwan's seeking closer ties with the US and Japan while distancing itself from China. Tawian Prsident Tsai Ing-wen will depart on 07 January 2017 to visit Honduras, Nicaragua, Columbia and El Salvador with a tansit stop in Houston and San Francisco on her to - and back from - Latin America. China is angry that Tsai has refused to accept Beijing's 'one China policy' which says Taiwan is part of China, has became more worried by Trump-Tsai phone call, as it was the first time a US president or president-elect has talked directly with Taiwan president. Beijing sees Taiwan as its breakaway province awaiting unification with the motherland, but Taiwan claims to be a sovereign country which is currently recognized by 21 countries. EPA/DAVID CHANG

Trump minds his manners for a smiling Xi at Florida retreat

Melania and Donald Trump with Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan at Mar-a-Lago. Photo: Reuters

China's first lady Peng Liyuan talks with Trump Senior Advisor Jared Kushner as they attend a dinner at the start of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the Eau Palm Beach Spa and Resort in Manalapan, Fla., where he is staying during his trip to meet with President Donald Trump, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (Lannis Waters /Palm Beach Post via AP)

U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping and first lady Peng Liyuan at Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, with their wives, first lady Melania Trump and Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan are seated at the center, during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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