.US National Safety Specialist Jake Sullivan shakes palms with China's President Xi Jinping during their conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 29, 2024. Trevor HunnicuttBEIJING u00e2 $" Chinese Head of state Xi Jinping said to united state nationwide protection specialist Jake Sullivan during an appointment Thursday that Beijing hopes Washington will certainly discover "an appropriate method" to hit it off." While great changes have actually taken place in the 2 countries and in China-U.S. connections, China's commitment to the target of a steady, healthy and also lasting China-U.S. connection continues to be the same," Xi stated, according to an English-language launch discussed through China's Department of Foreign Affairs.Tensions between the globe's 2 most extensive economies have risen over the last few years, splashing over from business right into financial and technology.The Mandarin leader claimed Thursday he really hopes the USA would see China's advancement "in a favorable" lighting as well as "deal with China to find an ideal technique for two significant nations to quadrate each others," according to Beijing.Sullivan, consultant to the outgoing Biden administration, gotten there in Beijing Tuesday for two days of appointments along with Wang Yi, China's leading mediator. On Thursday, Sullivan consulted with Zhang Youxia, bad habit chairman of the Mandarin Communist Gathering's Central Armed force Commission.This is actually Sullivan's very first travel to China as national safety specialist, in spite of having fulfilled numerous opportunities with Wang in recent years.The final main travel to China by a commander in chief's nationwide protection advisor remained in 2016, when Susan Rice took a trip to Beijing under the Obama administration.U.S. Head Of State Joe Biden and Xi have made a decision to speak through phone in "coming full weeks," the White Home pointed out Wednesday. Sullivan is arranged to depart China later Thursday.While the result of Nov's U.S. presidential political election continues to be uncertain, being difficult on Beijing is a rare problem that each USA political parties concur on.Biden left of the USA presidential nationality this summer season, endorsing his Bad habit Head of state Kamala Harris as the Democrat nominee.Harris' current national safety specialist, Phil Gordon, claimed in May at a Council on Foreign Relations activity that the "China challenge" is much higher than Taiwan, and also needs ensuring that Beijing "doesn't have the advanced innovation, cleverness and also army capabilities that can easily challenge our company.".