“Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily and many other party-state media draw parallels between the Xi-Obama summit in California and late US President Richard Nixon’s ‘handshake across the Pacific’ in Beijing to meet Mao Zedong in 1972 that began a thaw in bilateral relations.
They also say the California summit has ‘opened a new chapter’ of a new type of relationship as well as ‘co-operation across the Pacific’.
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