Outreach comes as Beijing seeks clarity on how relations with Washington will fare under incoming administration
US president-elect Donald Trump has invited President Xi Jinping to his inauguration in January, in an early sign that he intends to resume the high-level engagement with the Chinese leader that marked his first term. Karoline Leavitt, the incoming White House press secretary, told Fox News on Thursday that Trump wanted to create an “open dialogue” with countries that were American adversaries, not just with allies and partners. “We saw this in his first term.
The US is concerned about Chinese military activity around Taiwan and coercive activity towards countries such as the Philippines in the Indo-Pacific. China in turn accuses the US of meddling in its internal affairs over Taiwan and is angry at US export controls that are designed to make it harder for the Chinese military to use American technology to modernise. Trump has also picked several extremely hawkish officials to serve in top national security roles.
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