Beijing Adviser Says US Talks Cement China as ‘Equal Partner’

The summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart Donald Trump was a breakthrough in bilateral relationship where the Asian giant was treated as an “equal partner” of the US, according to David Daokui Li, a regular policy adviser to Beijing.

“Among all the meetings between the two leaders, this one is perhaps the most important — really historical,” said Li, an economics professor at Tsinghua University and a former adviser to the Chinese central bank. “Fundamentally the most important progress for both sides is for the US to recognize China as equal partner to talk about things.”