December 17, 2024

US president-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that Beijing and Washington could work together “to solve all of the problems of the world”, a sweeping statement issued little more than a month before he reassumes office.

Trump made the comment during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida, when asked about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s response to his invitation to attend the January 20 presidential inauguration. He also reportedly met with TikTok’s CEO Chew Shou Zi after the company petitioned the US Supreme Court to halt a law that appears set to ban the video sharing platform in the US.

Xi “hasn’t said one way or the other”, Trump said about the invitation.

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