Chinese media praise Trump’s ‘experience and ideology
President-elect’s emergence could mark ‘reshaping’ of Sino-American relations, editorials say
Chinese state-run media lauded Donald Trump on Tuesday after a phone call between him and President Xi Jinping, saying that the president-elect’s emergence could mark a “reshaping” of Sino-American relations.
The pair spoke on Monday, when Xi said that the two powers needed to co-operate and Trump’s office said the leaders “established a clear sense of mutual respect for one another”.
On the campaign trail Trump frequently demonised Beijing, but questions have been asked whether his conduct in the White House will match his promises as a candidate.
Monday’s conversation was “diplomatically impeccable and has bolstered optimism over bilateral relations in the next four years”, China’s frequently nationalistic Global Times newspaper said in an editorial.
Trump is probably the very American leader who will make strides in reshaping major-power relations in a pragmatic manner
Barack Obama, whose foreign policy “pivot to Asia” alarmed Beijing, was “profoundly affected” by the cold war-shaped outlook of American elites, the paper said, but Trump’s views “have not been kidnapped by Washington’s political elites”.