Trump should not handle US-China relations as he please: analysts

It's believed the first face-to-face meeting between the Presidents of China and the United States will touch upon some thorny issues between the two sides.

As CRI's Ding Heng reports, people who have personally been engaged in the development of the US-China relationship are telling the US President that an impulsive manner to deal with China is not a good choice.

Stephen Orlins is president of the National Committee on US-China Relations, a nonprofit organization in the US.

In the late 1970s, Orlins was a member of a legal team with the US State Department which helped establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.

In 1972, then US President Richard Nixon visited China.

The landmark trip ended more than 20 years of separation between the two countries, paving way for the official normalization of the relationship years later.

Looking back, Orlins says the relationship with China has been a major success of his country's foreign policy.

"It has been an example of where U.S. policy and China's response to that policy has created a more peaceful world. And when I contrast that to the Mid-East, have we really had success in the Mid-East? I would argue no. It is turbulent as the days when I was in the State Department. Have we had success in our Russia policy? No. So when we talk about the next 50 years, I say great, we should do it, but we should bear in mind that the policy since '72, or since the establishment of diplomatic relations on January 1, 1979, have worked; the foundations have been very successful; that the one-China policy has been very successful."

President Trump once took issue with China over Taiwan last December.

He mended the rift by reaffirming the One-China policy during a phone conversation with President Xi Jinping in February.

Analysts are currently watching whether Trump will again reaffirm his commitment to the principle during his face-to-face talk with the Chinese president.

Stephen Orlins says it is important for the two presidents to establish some personal chemistry at Mar-a-Lago resort.

"This relationship in Washington would be much more formal, much stiffer. The media will be crowding around. Here, interestingly enough, the media will have to be outside of the compound. They won't be able to be following everything that is going on, which allows the presidents to have a more informal, candid interaction."

While Trump has said he looks forward to the meeting, he has also implied trade will be a hard issue during the talk.

Observers fear a trade war between the world's two largest economies would be underway if he acted on some of his campaign rhetoric against China.

Xu Chen is governor of The Bank of China's US branch and long-time chairman of CGCC, a Chinese business lobby group in the US.

He says a trade war would be trouble for the entire world.

"Economic ties between China and the US have gone hand in hand with the diplomatic ties. Today, the two economies are highly complimentary and closely interconnected. We just cannot leave each other. If there is a big trouble between us, the world economy will be shaken. So it makes no sense to argue which side is winning and which is losing. The key point is we should be responsible for consumers and producers of the two sides."

Xu said China's rapidly growing demand for goods and services from the US are currently maintaining more than 900-thousand American jobs.