electronic Global Trade Credit Platform/eGTCP's Blog: Trump met with Chinese president and said they had a great time together

Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping to dine on pan-seared Dover sole and New York strip steak on Thursday. The two leaders of world’s biggest economy spent some social time before digging into thorny bilateral security and trade issues. Trump described it as an honored meeting and promised the relationship with Xi is great.

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Trump hopes Xi to raise concerns about North Korea’s nuclear threat and urges him to do more to stop North Korea's nuclear ambitions during the first talks with the Chinese attendants, though no major deal on this issue was expected.

The summit at Trump's Spanish-style Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, got off to a cordial start. Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, joined Trump and his wife, Melania, at a long table in a candle-lit ornate private dining room festooned with red and yellow floral centerpieces. And Melania wore red to show respect to Chinese traditons.

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Trump joked before dinner: "We've had a long discussion already, and so far I have gotten nothing, absolutely nothing, but we have developed a friendship - I can see that - and I think long term we are going to have a very, very great relationship and I look very much forward to it."

The fanfare over the summit on Thursday was overshadowed by another pressing foreign policy issue: the U.S. response to a deadly poison gas attack in Syria. A U.S. official said on Thursday the White House and Pentagon were discussing military options.

Trump and Xi were expected to get into more discussions in details about trade and foreign policy issues on Friday. Trump promised during the 2016 presidential campaign to stop what he called the theft of American jobs by China and rebuild the country's manufacturing base. Many blue-collar workers helped propel him to his unexpected election victory in November and Trump wants to deliver for them. "We have been treated unfairly and have made terrible trade deals with China for many, many years. That's one of the things we are going to be talking about," Trump told reporters ahead of the meeting.

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Trump is still finding his stance in the White House and has yet to spell out a strategy for what his advisers called a trade relationship based on "the principle of reciprocity." He brought his top economic and national advisers to Florida for the meeting, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. "Even as we share a desire to work together, the United States does recognize the challenges China can present to American interests," said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, also in Florida for the meeting. Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, who both work at the White House, also were among the dinner guests.

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