When asked about what type of relationship the US and China should have, during a press conference in Osaka, US President Donald Trump said that they could be "strategic partners."
Relations between the US and China have become increasingly tense since Trump entered the White House in 2017, with Beijing facing economic and diplomatic pushback.
But Trump has regularly praised Chinese leader Xi Jinping and said that the two countries can work together.
"I think we can help each other, if China would open up, you’re opening up the largest market in the world," he said.
"And right now China isn’t open to the US ... That shouldn’t have been allowed to happen," he said.
Abe says he encouraged Xi and Trump to establish a "stable economic relationship"
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he met with both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump during the G20 and pushed the two leaders to “establish a stable economic relationship.”
In his closing press conference as the president of the G20 Summit in Osaka, Abe said, “I spoke to them of the great importance for the leaders of the largest and second largest economies of the world to establish a stable economic relationship through constructive discussion.”
