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China's Xi lauds 'new positioning' in ties with US
China’s President Xi Jinping hailed on Thursday a “new positioning” of ties with the United States that envisages cooperation with measured competition, following his summit with President Donald Trump. Xi said both leaders agreed that building a constructive, strategically stable relationship would guide ties in the next three years and beyond, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement. Xi described such ties as based primarily on cooperation but with measured competition for “a normal stability in which differences are controllable, and a lasting stability in which peace can be expected”, the ... (full story)