The China-US relationship is critical for the world, and dialogue and cooperation between the two countries are essential for global stability and predictability: This is the overwhelming view on this week's Chinese and US leaders' meetings in Washington, D.C., with ties improving, and AI and trade most watched.

The two heads of state recognize the positive role of the China-US economic and trade consultation mechanism, endorse the outcomes of the consultations between the two economic and trade teams, reaching an arrangement for a $30 billion reciprocal tariff reduction, and the extension of the outcomes of economic and trade consultations in Kuala Lumpur, and give instructions that they be implemented.