As Xi Jinping, then Vice President of China, prepared for high-stakes meetings in the United States, a top Chinese diplomat lamented the “trust deficit” between the nations and said both sides “must give full attention” to “nurturing and deepening mutual trust.”
That was 2012.
A decade later, following the most difficult period since the People’s Republic of China and the U.S. established diplomatic ties 45 years ago, President Xi met with American President Joe Biden in San Francisco, California, in November 2023, where both sides pledged to rebuild the shattered trust. The response of both sides was eerily similar.
Beijing Review publishes a Chinese Government announcement welcoming U.S. President Richard Nixon to visit China, in July 1971
A commentary asserted that China is willing to work “at all levels” to improve relations but called on the U.S. “to increase strategic mutual
