BEIJING, March 4 (Reuters) \u2013 China is willing to work with the United States to promote communication on all levels, while upholding its \u201cred \u200blines\u201d and principles, Lou Qinjian, a spokesperson \u200cfor its parliament, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The National People\u2019s Congress opens its annual session on Thursday, where it will unveil this year\u2019s economic targets and policy priorities.<\/p>\n
The meeting comes at \u200ca \u200bsensitive moment for China-US relations, \u2060as both sides look \u2060to stabilise ties ahead of an expected summit of leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing at the end of March.<\/p>\n
China and the \u200bUnited States should respect each other and coexist peacefully, Lou said.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina has its own principles \u2060and red lines, and as \u2060always, will resolutely defend its sovereignty, \u200bsecurity and development interests,\u201d he told a press conference.<\/p>\n
Diplomacy \u200bbetween heads of state has an \u201cirreplaceable strategic role\u201d \u200cin guiding the two countries\u2019 ties, Lou added, urging them to \u201cexpand the list of cooperation (areas) while reducing the list of problems\u201d.<\/p>\n
He called on the U.S. \u2060Congress to view China \u201cobjectively\u201d, and do more to benefit ties.<\/p>\n
A White House official has confirmed Trump will travel \u2060to China from \u200cMarch 31 to April 2, although \u2060Beijing has made no official announcement.<\/p>\n
Top \u200btrade \u200cnegotiators of both sides are expected \u200bto meet \u2060in Paris next week to discuss potential business deals linked to the highly anticipated meet, Bloomberg News said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Xiuhao Chen, Shi Bu, Ethan Wang and Ryan Woo; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and \u200bClarence Fernandez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING, March 4 (Reuters) \u2013 China is willing to work with the United States to promote communication on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-502832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}