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Top achievement of Trump-Xi meet: Getting to know each other

In tone and results, the summit was similar to a June 2013 meeting between Xi and Obama

US President, Donald Trump, Xi Jinping
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US President Donald Trump interacts with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago state in Palm Beach, Florida. Photo: Reuters

Toluse Olorunnipa & Jennifer Jacobs | Bloomberg
US officials said President Donald Trump’s first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week was an opportunity for the leaders of the world’s two largest economies to get to know each other. That’s about all they appear to have accomplished after about 18 hours together at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort — a visit interrupted by a US cruise-missile strike on Syria during dinner. 
There were no trade or investment deals announced, no agreement to contain North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, no plan to reduce tensions in the South China Sea.

“We have very similar economic interests and there are areas where they