Dialogue and cooperation key to keeping Sino-US relationship on the right course

The talks on the phone between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump on Thursday undoubtedly came at a critical juncture amid a strained relationship between the world's top two economies.

Although China and the United States reached a 90-day agreement through an economic and trade dialogue in Geneva on May 12 to try and bring down tariffs amid a trade war launched by the US administration, tensions have remained high since then as the latter has not ceased to take restrictive measures in tech, trade and people-to-people exchanges against China.

That explains why the two leaders mainly focused their first talks since Trump's inauguration on trade-related issues, apart from the Taiwan question, in order to try and press ahead with the process of resolving their economic and trade issues through dialogue and consultation, which, as Xi said, is widely welcomed by all sectors of the two countries and the international community, as dialogue and cooperation are the only correct choice.