Implementing the consensus reached at the meeting between the two heads of state in Argentina, eliminating trade conflicts in an appropriate way and achieving a win-win situation are the top priorities for China and the United States in the next three months.

Amid the tight time schedule and all kinds of opinions in both countries, both governments need to shoulder their responsibilities, lead the people of both countries to each other in the middle and achieve new breakthroughs in reaching an agreement.

When China makes up its mind and acts on it, it often has a clear direction and strong determination. The complexity of the U.S. political structure and public opinions, plus great uncertainties in its way of action, makes it much more difficult to predict what it's going to do.

In the next three months, one of the major challenges for China and the United States is to hold a mutual belief in each other's political commitment to end the trade war and keep the negotiation process from weighing down on such belief.

China and the U.S. will certainly strive for their own interests and safeguard their bottom line in the upcoming negotiations. Once the talk over a specific issue hits an impasse, the question of whether the whole negotiation can continue will be brought up, thus threatening the entire process.

The U.S. side is very good at exerting pressure on the other party through underhanded speculation-triggering measures. It's almost sure that the U.S. side will be the source of more uncertainties in future negotiations.

To understand the true attitude of the U.S. side, we should not look at what it does to China, but look at how the White House communicates with American people. Please be noted that the message sent by the U.S. side after the consensus reached last Saturday is very complicated, the biggest focus of which is the concern that China will not deliver on the consensus between the two heads of state.

After China launched major measures on intellectual property protection on Tuesday and the Ministry of Commerce announced on Wednesday its action plan to deliver on the consensus as soon as possible, President Trump tweeted cheerfully to praise the results of the meeting in front of the American people.

Given the American political system, the president's tweets are also substantive efforts to rebuild the confidence of American society on the bilateral relations.

If both sides can keep generating good results on easing trade conflicts, the high-profile endorsement of every such result by the White House will mark a significant step to guide American society towards ending the trade war. The more such steps both sides take, the higher the stakes and the harder it will be to go back.

We believe that the U.S. government, like China, is willing to end the trade war. It just wants to bring home as many desired results as it wants.

This talk is a highly sensitive process in which the negotiation teams of both sides want to score more points through tactics and courage. Both sides intend to reach an agreement at the end of the negotiations. We hereby make the following suggestions.

Firstly, we believe that both sides have a bottom line and there are a few cases where the bottom lines are in conflict with each other. There are some distances between the bottom lines of both sides, which make it hard to cross. Both China and the U.S. should respect each other's bottom line.

Secondly, both teams should be responsible for the future and for how the talk might be remembered in the history by working out a good agreement that can be implemented in the long term. If one party forces the hand of the other party, or one party sets a trap and acquires the absolute favorable conditions for itself at the expense of the other party, the agreement eventually reached might be half-baked and difficult to deliver on and even run the risk of being scrapped.

Thirdly, neither side should drive up the expectations of its own public by talking tough before the negotiations in order to put pressure on the other side. If this happens, neither side can achieve its goal; the tough remarks will only be called bluff. Although it is possible to blame the other party for the failure of negotiations and such tough stance might win support domestically, the fact is that the public's disappointment over the failure will be very overwhelming.

The heads of state of China and the United States reached a consensus and instructed the negotiating teams of the two countries to step up their work, representing the true determination of the two governments and the maximum common ground of people in both societies.

President Trump has been talking about China-U.S. trade almost every day these days, and other senior U.S. officials have also taken turns to talk about it. Although their views can vary, such intensive discussions on this issue show the U.S. side's expectation for a happy ending.

We believe that the determination of the two countries at the highest level to end the trade war is real. What is needed now is for both sides to meet each other in the middle, so that such determination can be constantly confirmed. China's commitment to further reform and opening-up is set in stone. Such commitment has been outlined in the framework of China-U.S. consensus.

Actions on implementing this basic framework and achieving win-win results will be in the best interests of both China and the United States. Washington needs to be especially clear-minded on this critical issue.