WASHINGTON – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday gave remarks at the arrival ceremony at the White House in Washington, DC, the United States.
The following is the full text of the remarks:
Honorable President Donald J. Trump and Mrs. Melania Trump,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Friends,
I’m very glad to pay a state visit to your beautiful country, the United States of America. Thank you, President Trump and Mrs. Trump, for the warm hospitality you have extended to me and my wife. On behalf of the 1.4 billion and more Chinese people, I wish to begin by extending sincere greetings to the American people and warm congratulations on the 250th anniversary of the US independence.
Both China and the United States are great countries, and both the Chinese and American peoples are great peoples. I am visiting the United States at President Trump’s invitation to carry on our friendship, expand cooperation, and promote the well-being of both our peoples.
Facing the changes in our world, in our times, and of historical significance today, China and the United States, as two major countries, shoulder a historic responsibility of advancing human development and progress.
Mr. President, during your visit to China this year, we agreed to build a constructive China-US relationship of strategic stability, and this is widely welcomed by the people of our two countries and the international community. I am ready to work with you to steer the giant ship of China-US relationship on a steady course toward the future.
– We should strengthen communication. China and the United States are different in national conditions, but through candid, in-depth and continued dialogue, our two countries can understand each other better, seek common ground while shelving differences, and build up mutual trust. President Trump and I have respect for each other. We have built personal rapport and stayed in touch. We encourage our government departments, such as those in charge of foreign affairs, economic matters, financial cooperation, law enforcement and people-to-people exchanges, to catch up on strengthening contact, and we support our legislative bodies in increasing exchanges.
– We should cooperate with sincerity. The interests of China and the United States are deeply intertwined, and there is plenty of room for us to work together. China-US cooperation may not solve every problem in the world. But, without our cooperation, it would be hard to solve many of the world’s problems. China keeps its door wide open, welcomes American companies wanting to invest and do business there. We hope Chinese companies are treated fairly here in the United States. Working together, we can lengthen the list of cooperation, and shorten the list of issues. Both China and the United States are leading nations in artificial intelligence. We have both the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good, and ensure that the development of AI is always under human control and serves the well-being of the people. On counternarcotics and law enforcement, the Chinese side is willing to strengthen cooperation with the United States. Our two sides may also increase direct flights to facilitate two-way travel and trade.
– We should coexist in peace. As I have said many times, China and the United States, as two major countries, stand to gain from cooperation and will both lose in confrontation. We do not need to avoid mentioning competition, but our competition should be a healthy one and should be kept within bounds. It should be a race of catching up with one another, not a wrestle in which one either wins or loses. China and the United States must hold the line of no conflict and no confrontation between us, and we can certainly find the right path for our two great countries to get along on this planet we both call home. Our two militaries should maintain regular dialogue, and improve mechanisms for crisis communication and prevention. The Thucydides Trap can be overcome.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Friends,
During the Second World War, Chinese and Americans fought shoulder to shoulder against fascist aggression. Chinese people have never forgotten that part of history, nor have the American people. The hope of the China-US relationship lies in our people, and its future lies with the young. I am glad to announce an invitation for 100,000 young Americans to visit China for exchanges and study in the coming five years.
The giant panda has been an envoy of friendship between the Chinese and Americans. Here, I have a piece of good news. In a few days, two pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, will come to their new home in Zoo Atlanta and meet with the American people.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Friends,
Achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand in hand. Let us meet the people’s expectation and show our historical initiative. Let us keep advancing the cause of friendship between our two peoples and work together to build a better world!
Thank you.
During the Second World War, Chinese and Americans fought shoulder to shoulder against fascist aggression. Chinese people have never forgotten that part of history, nor have the American people.
Brother most americans think the nazis were russians, you’re way too charitable with average americans.
There are like 500 Americans who have ever even been exposed to the term ‘Thucydides trap’ before in their life.
I hope I’m not talking out my ass, but your average american is like a peasant in Tsarist Russia really, so maybe this is a good thing and revolution is right around the corner? Fingers crossed?
If the tsarist era peasants had unlimited access to debt-financed F350s and a diet rich in Brazil’s cheapest beef they certainly wouldn’t have risen up
the tsarist equivalent of a debt financed f350 is probably some serf’s rope-wrapped forehead dragging your boat up the volga
Okay I’m sticking this one in the taglines
this was that day for me
that’s the first time i’ve seen that, they don’t even know the difference between stalin and hitler?
Some don’t!
They usually learn that in the same semester of history class where they read Tocqueville.
and less than ten years later they fought each other in Korea and Chinese forces prevailed both times
Most Americans think the the Pacific Theater was “Japan allied with the Axis, did absolutely nothing for a while, then bombed Pearl Harbor”.
I am glad to announce an invitation for 100,000 young Americans to visit China for exchanges and study in the coming five years.
Get the fuck on this, Bears. The shit winds are a-coming for you if you stay in America.
that’s great. now can anyone make me young again?
having a kid to be your blood bag is even less ethical than usual
and look at him, it didn’t even work
Get the fuck on this, Bears.
Sad to say this but xi deported two pandas, the bears cannot get in on this
young
here i am middle aged and having spine surgery because of a car accident i was in 20 years ago catching up to me.
Oh sick, they’ve launched early access to get on the roster for the next red scare
Come visit us white Americans
I can’t wait to do some exchanging!
Oh I am going.
Our two militaries should maintain regular dialogue, and improve mechanisms for crisis communication and prevention. The Thucydides Trap can be overcome.
This is the best part of the speech. Directly referencing the Thucydides Trap is a huge callout of “we’re overtaking you and you are declining”.
The paragraph about fighting fascism together and young people being the future kinda scanned to me as ‘We will teach your growing ranks of disillusioned young people what they need to know to defeat you’
Both China and the United States are great countries, and both the Chinese and American peoples are great peoples.
Both China and the United States are big countries, inhabited by many Chinese and Americans
Those poor pandas.
the last ones were so mistreated and ill when they were finally returned
finally, a true leader in the white house
that’s my president 🫡🫡🫡The best part was when Xi winked into the camera and called the people on Hexbear his favourite liberals.
where my Xi bux at Xi? huh? huhhh??
You have to slip soros apes to convert to xi bux
I feel insane reading this what the hell
I mean yeah I get it trump is a fool and these things he’s saying are both diplomatically good and will make the big guy happy and we all know that he loves doing whatever the last person he spoke to put into his head. No doubt china will dominate the world and the US in the coming era
But still it feels like shit to read this boot licking
The Thucydides Trap can be overcome.
this is an amazing slap in the face to America that no one in america will even understand is a direct callout of the fact that china is about to dominate, so I guess I’m satisfied lol
its also interesting that he calls us “the american people” but when referring to the people of china just says “chinese people”
“The Thuccydides trap can be avoided” is a wild back hander and will set the West Point boys fuming.
It means the same thing as Krushchev’s “We will bury you”, but phrased in a way noone but massive neocon nerds are likely to get. Really comforting to hear, honestly.
Pandering and bootlicking are very different and should carry different indictments.
I read the speech smiling because I recognized it was pandering designed to slip actual messages through to the American psyche.
Yeah you’re right that’s a better word
edit:typo
If it helps, I do agree the pandering makes me cringe inside. I wish it wasn’t necessary. Keep your chin up comrade.
thank you for being my friend, Xi
Nu Uh. I saw Xi first
Since xi is so amicable to the US he must be a comprador and china is therefore run by the US
He is basically Chinese khrushev
That’s why he spent so much time in Iowa, to be closer to the corn
everyone yearns for the corn
China is run by the US who is run by Russia therefore China is run by Russia by the transitive property.
🤦♂️
They work with the imf and the world bank, have diplomacy with the US, aren’t fighting against the US with any teeth despite the US always doing things against them, and the US companies even operate in China and take advantage of their workers. What’s the difference? Edit: and they do it without being under threat of violence or the ability to be blockaded
I heard they even have a mcdonald
They even have kfc
China’s burger infrastructure is FAILING…
(real proletarian hero Gordon Chang protecting the party of the workers and peasants from imperial aggression through deception)
Edit: I took a joke seriously and am deeply ashamed.
Original: Is this comment still part of the bit? Elsewhere you were clearly joking and it was quite funny, but here you’re just doing ChinaBad bullshit for no comedic gain and it is bizarre.
To claim that US companies operate in China and “take advantage of their workers” is some of the most lazy, hurtful analysis I’ve ever seen. It leaves out so much context (Chinese corporations also operate in the US, Chinese regulatory bodies actively stop workplace exploitation, especially from foreign interests…) that I can only hope you were trying to be funny and I missed the joke.
Yes it is entirely part of the bit. I am using their logic an applying in to China to display how utterly useless and ridiculous it is
I am both embarrassed and ashamed. I am leaving the above comment as evidence of my inadequate ability to read hexbear sarcasm.
Sorry comrade.
Don’t be embarrassed, I think a sarcasm tag was necessary. It was not clear to me either
Not at all, I’ve been going hard on the bit and should have been more clear
its not a speech about how they have taken over the government and will now show them what mao trained them to do? xi wasnt going to pull a pistol out and dome trump right then and there?
Absolute revisionism
that’s my president
🥰
When Xi sees the decor:
Want to extend that 100,000 to Guatemala as well?
