16 CHINAREPORT I May 2017

Chinese analysts hailed the positive energy of the first meeting between Chinese

President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump. But can the ‘friendship’ forged

between the two transform the most important bilateral relationship in the world?

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The first meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US

counterpart Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago estate, Florida, April 6, 2017

Chinese President Xi Jinping, his wife Peng Liyuan, US President Donald

Trump and First Lady Melania Trump listen as Trump’s grandchildren sing a

Chinese folk song and recite classics of Chinese literature in the Mar-a-Lago

resort in Florida, the United States, April 6, 2017

Photo by xinhua

Photo by xinhua