China, US to ensure Trump visit a ‘historic success’

BEIJING, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) — China and the United States are working to ensure President Donald Trump’s state visit is a “historic success,” Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang said recently.

Trump, who will pay a state visit to China from Nov. 8 to 10, will be the first head of state to visit China after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will receive Trump with high standards in reciprocity to the hospitality he received from Trump at Mar-a-Lago in April, according to Zheng.

“Apart from the red-carpet ceremony, formal talks and banquet, the two presidents will have informal arrangements,” Zheng told a briefing for Chinese and foreign reporters.

The two leaders will exchange views on major issues of mutual concern, attend a business community event and meet the press, Zheng said.

US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said that President Donald Trump looks forward to his upcoming visit to China and is ready to work with Beijing to promote peace and prosperity in the region and beyond.

China is “an immensely important part of ... regional security as well as protecting and advancing the systems that have benefitted all of us,” McMaster told reporters.

“These are really the rule-based security, economic, political and diplomatic organizations and systems that emerged after the bloodiest war in human history in the previous century,” he added.

“We have to really work hard to preserve and advance what has lifted so many people out of poverty, and what has prevented greatpower conflict for 70 years. We cannot take it for granted.”

“So I know the president is committed to working with China, with President Xi in particular, and with all leaders in the region, to make sure that for the next 70 years, we enjoy a degree of prosperity and security we’ve enjoyed over the past 70 years,” he said.