“We’ll Solve North Korean Nuclear Menace Together”

President Trump seems to be making great strides to improve diplomatic relations between the US and China.

As I mentioned yesterday, Trump and Melania were granted an unprecedented honor – dinner at the Forbidden City – something that no foreign leader had done in the history of the nation.

Now, President Trump and  President Xi Jinping are speaking out about their commitment to solving the North Korean nuclear crisis… TOGETHER.

This is what we need right now, folks.

According to this:

President Donald Trump said Thursday in Beijing that he and President Xi Jinping agree ‘there’s a solution’ to conflict with North Korea and have committed to resolving the crisis together.

‘I do believe there’s a solution to that, as you do,’ he said of their stance on the rebellious regime after morning meetings with the Chinese government.

Trump said later, in a statement to the media, that he and Xi ‘agreed not to replicate failed approaches of the past, and there were many,’ as they dealt with the ‘very serious nuclear menace.’

Regardless of your personal feelings on China, we’re going to NEED them on our team when it comes to North Korea.

Trump also addressed the important economic relationship between the two nations:

‘Perhaps now more than ever we have an opportunity to strengthen the relationship between our two countries and improve the lives of our citizens,’ Trump stated. ‘As long as we stand together, with others if necessary, against those who threaten our civilization, that threat will never happen. It doesn’t even have a chance.’

The president also said Thursday that he does not blame China for its gigantic trade deficit with the U.S.
Trump said it was ‘past administrations’ that allowed the economic relationship between the two countries to get ‘so far out of kilter.’

Fair enough. It’s not China’s job to look out for OUR economic best interests… it’s ours.

Trump and Xi met with U.S. and Chinese officials for two hours on Thursday morning.

In joint statements to reporters with Trump after the meetings had concluded, Xi said the two leaders had ‘reiterated’ their mutual ‘firm commitment to achieving denuclearization of the peninsula.’

Xi stressed that the U.S. and China are ‘two distinctive countries’ with ‘two sides or different views’ while emphasizing that a ‘healthy, stable and growing U.S.-China relationship’ is in the benefit of both nations.

The Chinese leader said he impressed his country’s desire to ‘jointly maintain and promote peace and stability and peace and prosperity in the region’ in his talk with Trump.

‘We believe that China and the United States are countries where the important influence [is] in the Asia Pacific,’ Xi said through a translator. ‘As I said to the president, the Pacific Ocean is big enough to accommodate both China and the United States.’

The American president emerged from the talks convinced that China, which he once said was ‘raping’ the U.S. in the trade arena, would be a steady ally in the region and a reliable partner when it comes to addressing economic imbalances between the two countries in a dramatic shift from his earlier disparagements of Xi’s government.

I think this is a really positive move on Trump’s part.

Thoughts?