Xi Jinping gave Donald Trump a truly royal reception. However, if you read what the right press line of the press writes, it becomes obvious how in fact the Chinese leadership treats the American president, writes Die Welt.
"The Beijing leadership has a low opinion of President Trump, but does not give a look," says the author of the publication, Joni Erling. - An exception was made on the eve of the recent party congress: the propagandists of the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Xi Jinping of the Higher Party School, wrote about the fact that nobody abroad overseas is entitled to Si and this reflects the "superiority" of China's political system ".
As explained by the propagandists, Si 44 years of building a political career and only then reached the very top of the party hierarchy, while the "head of the US business empire" to win the election was "just his state and understanding of what the people want him to hear".
But when the Chinese leadership met Trump in Beijing on Wednesday, "it did not make it clear for a moment that it refers to the current US president as an upstart and considers his comments on Twitter to be" unrestrained, "writes the author of the article.
On the eve of the visit, censored Chinese media wrote only about positive expectations from the leaders meeting. Only the Global Times with concern in one publication wondered what happened in the crisis-ridden USA and Europe, where, after the end of the presidential elections in the United States, there were "both a traditional system of values ??and a political order". "Almost a year after the arrival of Trump, a significant part of the American elite still refuses to cooperate with him," the article said..
As for the main topics of the visit, the C, as experts expect, can make certain concessions. "Trump, with his shaky domestic political positions, meets with Xi Jinping, who, after the Party congress, exudes self-confidence. But, as both sides need each other, chances are growing that Beijing will meet halfway in the Korean issue. One of the levers may be a new stage of cooperation with South Korea, Japan and the United States. In response, C can expect that the US will not interfere with the implementation of its promises to finish before 2020 the first phase of China's economic recovery, "reads the article.
According to Zhang Lianggui, an expert on North Korea from the Higher Party School, both Beijing and Washington realize that "there is no other way but a dialogue": the sanctions against Pyongyang had some effect, but their toughening will not lead to the denial of the regime from nuclear weapons. The expert believes that the US intends to "turn to military means". The only question is whether Trump will dedicate Xi Jinping to his plans and how much he deems them acceptable, the author.
As Erling writes further, "serious progress in the North Korean issue may for some time push back into the background other problems in China's relations with the United States, such as the longstanding ripening conflict over Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea and other areas".
In addition, the article said, "the shadow of Trump's visit to Beijing is thrown and the growing deficit of the US trade balance in trade with China, which in 2016 rose to $ 347 billion, and in the first 9 months of this year it grew by another 273 billion ".