Xi congratulates Trump on election win as China calls for "mutual respect" with US

China’s foreign ministry on Thursday called for a China-United States relationship to be one of “mutual respect” where differences can be “properly” managed. The response came to a question at a briefing that asked confirmation of whether Chinese president Xi Jinping had called or messaged U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. Xi's congratulatory message through his ministry's office was more subdued than in 2016, as a second question focused on China’s response to Trump’s proposed tariffs and Trump saying Xi would not invade Taiwan. Trump's win could revive issues from his first presidency, when he started the bruising trade war with the world's second-largest economy in 2018, though striking a truce just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck in January 2020. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10856636/us-election-harris-concedes-trump/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews #trump #china #xijinping