Said china was raping the United States, and accused it of stealing american jobs. Today there were gasps when mr trump said it was all down to previous us president s and wasnt chinas fault. Our china editor Carrie Gracie was there. The real estate billionaire and the career communist. Making an odd couple. But both see themselves as men of destiny, with a mission to make their nation great again. President trump once raged that china was a jobs thief. But in beijing he was all smiles and gratitude. President xi, now a very special man who makes his people proud. I just want to thank you for the very warm welcome. My feeling toward you is an incredibly warm one. They did eventually talk about the hard things. The north Korean Nuclear crisis, and a massive us trade deficit in chinas favour. But donald trump blamed that on previous american president s. Not on his host. I dont blame china. Laughter who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benef
Economies. Mr trump will have an opportunity to meet individual leaders from the region, and to outline his vision of the United States future role in asia. The leaders of the United States and china are expected to outline competing visions of global trade when they address the Asia Pacific Economic co operation summit in vietnam in the coming hours. Our reporter karisham vaswani is there and i put it to her that President Trumps vision will be quite different from that of his predecessor at the last summit. You are correct to when president obama came to the Asia Pacific Region and various summits as well the big message from the Previous Administration was that there is a pivot to asia. He was engaged in the region. He had spent some time growing up in indonesia and asian leaders felt there was a rapport and chemistry within. Donald trump is a direct contrast to that. The Trans Pacific direct contrast to that. The tra ns Pacific Partnership direct contrast to that. The Trans Pacific
To advance trading relations. Mrtrump is now mr trump is now expected to lay out a different approach to trade. Are spot dashmac when president obama came to the asia pacific are spot dashmac when president obama came to the Asia Pacific Region and various summits as well, the big message from the Previous Administration was that there is a pivot to asia. He was engaged in the region. He had spent some time growing up in indonesia and asian leaders felt there was a rapport and chemistry with him. Donald trump is a direct contrast to that. The tra ns Pacific Partnership agreement that was the cornerstone of president obamas trade policy in the Asia Pacific Region is the thing that donald trump basically tore up when he came into office saying it was unfair to American Workers and unfair to the us economy. When he gets into that room a little later on today to sit down and address the leaders of the 21 economies, it will be a tough crowd. They want to know whether or not the us is still