Asia-Pacific collaboration given fillip at meeting

X\'S trip Seen as putting China-US ties on more Sure footing. Xu Wei and Yifan Xu report

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Chinese President Xi Jinping's four-day trip to San Francisco in the United States has steadied the course for ties between the world's two largest economies and injected fresh impetus into cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, a senior official and analysts say.

Xi attended over 10 bilateral and multilateral events, including a summit with US President Joe Biden that spanned over four hours, and a banquet with US business executives and citizens committed to promoting bilateral friendship, during which he received a standing ovation several times.

The China-US summit, a major event in international relations, is capable of steering Sino-US ties toward "a healthy, stable and sustainable direction", said Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and foreign minister, in a media briefing.

The Xi-Biden meeting in Filoli, a historic estate south of San Francisco, showcased the positive intentions of both sides and achieved significant outcomes, and it holds extraordinary significance, Wang said, adding that the summit will "play a crucial role in guiding the fluctuating course of China-US relations".

Key outcomes of the summit include agreements to step up counternarcotics cooperation, jointly tackle the climate crisis, resume high-level military-tomilitary communication and expand educational, student, youth, cultural, sports and business exchanges.