Opinion: Why Trump’s upcoming China visit is important?

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US President Donald Trump will visit China from November 8 to 10 as part of his Asia tour, and it is his first visit to China.

Chinese Embassy had a briefing on the upcoming visit, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai talks about the fact that it is real honor to host US President Trump as the first world leader after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump hold a second round of talks at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, April 7, 2017. /Xinhua Photo

Cui says it will be a visit that combines the state visit, traditional pomp and circumstance with the private conversation between these two leaders, who had an extensive talk at the Mar-a-Lago that they will build on.

Cui does not anticipate these two leaders to see eye to eye one hundred percent on their respectively foreign policies.

“The two Presidents did have a very good conversation at Mar-a-Lago, a long and productive conversation there. We do not always one hundred percent agree to all the foreign policy of US, and maybe that is also true that US does not always one hundred percent with our foreign policy, that is why we need this high level communication. We need better coordination,” Cui pointed out.

However, in terms of main topics of discussion, Cui Tiankai anticipates these two leaders will talk extensively about the Korean nuclear issue and US-China cooperation around that issue as well as bilateral trade.

On trade and economics affair, he says he does expect there two leaders will announce significant outcomes. And he points out the trade deficit that Donald Trump used to measure US-China economic relations is unfair measure because so many items in the supply chain are assembled in China, but not made in China.

As for US accusations about China’s “predatory economic behavior”, “People saying those things about China, they might just look into the mirror, and it might be describing themselves,” said Cui.

Speaking of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) nuclear issue, the ambassador says he blames Pyongyang for not doing more to get back to negotiating table, but also Washington needs to do more to get back to the negotiating table.

He says, China for its part, is doing everything it can and it is not the sole party to solve this problem.