On January 17, 2024, a telephone conversation took place between newly elected US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Trump said they talked about trade and social networks. Meanwhile, his interlocutor spoke about other interesting topics and who asked for contact. The new American president wrote about his conversation with Xi Jinping on the social network Truth Social.

Trump's message about contact with Xi Jinping appeared online at 16:26 on January 17. The future head of the United States wrote that the main topics of conversation were trade, fentanyl, TikTok. There were other topics: which ones were not specified. The politician summed up that the conversation went well and together with the leader of the PRC they will make the world more peaceful.

" The call was very good for both China and the US. I hope we can solve many problems together and start immediately. President Xi and I will do our best to make the world a more peaceful and secure place.! "

The Chinese state government news agency Xinhua published details of the conversation with Trump from the PRC's point of view. First of all, China noted that the initiative for the conversation belongs to the American politician. After this, it is recognized that the two countries have serious differences, but they should jointly look for how to resolve it. First of all, two topics are mentioned that are important for China. The first of these is Taiwan: Xi Jinping expressed hope that Trump will approach this problem in a “balanced” manner.. The second is “Chinese-American economic and trade relations,” which should not be conflicting.

There were other topics that were mentioned at the end of the article. Among other things, the politicians talked about " In this context, mention is made of the Russian-Ukrainian war and the war in Israel.

Note that in November, after Trump’s victory in the presidential election, Focus wrote about the Republican’s attitude towards China. According to the newly elected US leader, China is one of his main problems, besides Russia and Iran. The American said that he would overcome this problem economically by raising duties on Chinese goods by hundreds of percent..

We remind you that in December, the Financial Times described five possible scenarios that Trump’s policy could follow: in some of them, the United States “surrenders” Ukraine and Taiwan.