Cooperation is the only choice, Xi tells US president-elect

Beijing

CHINESE President Xi Jinping told US president-elect Donald Trump that cooperation was the only choice for relations between the world's two largest economies, with Mr Trump saying the two had established a "clear sense of mutual respect".

Mr Trump lambasted China throughout the US election campaign, drumming up headlines with his pledges to slap 45 per cent tariffs on imported Chinese goods and to label the country a currency manipulator on his first day in office.