Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump had their first meetings on April 6-7. What is your comment on the meetings and the establishment of the fourpronged high-level dialogues? What are the differences between the new dialogue

I paid a lot of attention to the meetings of the two presidents because they are very important. The meetings looked good, and the two leaders got along. The good thing is there was nothing negative; things didn’t get worse. Many people were afraid of what would happen because of all the things that Trump said about China during his campaign.

The old dialogues were not very effective. They did not accomplish much mainly because the U.S. used them to make requests. The U.S. set the agenda in the last dialogues, but it sounds like in the new dialogues, China may set the agenda. Trump doesn’t have many advisors. So his administration was probably less prepared than the Chinese Government. If the new dialogue agendas are going to be set by China, that will be a big change from the past. That’s something that remains to be seen.