President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping toasted relations between their nations on Thursday night during Trump’s historic state visit to Beijing, China.

The toasts came at a banquet toward the conclusion of Trump’s first full day in China, which included a pomp-filled welcome ceremony and a more than two-hour bilateral meeting that began in the morning and concluded in the early afternoon, Beijing time.

Trump said citizens of the countries “have shared a deep mutual respect” from the beginning of the U.S.-China relationship.

“Founding father Benjamin Franklin published the sayings of Confucius in his colonial newspaper, and…

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