China is ready to work with Trump, Wang Yi tells US counterpart
Foreign minister tells US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that Beijing is prepared to work with for relationship ‘with no conflict or confrontation’
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his US counterpart Rex Tillerson that Beijing was ready to work with the Trump administration, according to a Chinese account of their meeting in Bonn.
Wang and Tillerson met on Friday at a G20 gathering of foreign ministers – the highest-level Sino-US encounter since US President Donald Trump was elected.
Trump had infuriated Beijing by calling into question Washington’s long-standing one-China policy, but later reaffirmed it in a conciliatory phone call to President Xi Jinping.
“Wang said China and the United States, both shouldering the responsibilities of securing world stability and enhancing global prosperity, had more common interests than disputes,” the statement said.
“China is ready to work with the US side to implement the consensus reached between President Xi and President Trump, and move the bilateral relationship forward in the direction that features no conflict, no confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation.”