Busan/Beijing —
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump have begun a landmark meeting in South Korea that could reset the volatile relationship between the world’s two largest economies and rival superpowers.
Both leaders offered warm remarks as their talks – the leaders’s first face-to-face in six years – got underway at an airbase in the coastal city of Busan, near to where an international summit is taking place.
Trump praised Xi as the “great leader of a great country” and said he thought the two “were going to have a fantastic relationship for a long period of time,” while the Chinese leader said it was a “great pleasure” to see Trump after many years.
“We do not always see eye to eye with each other, and it is normal for the two leading economies of the world to have frictions now and then … you and I at the helm of China-US relations should stay the right cou
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