.United States National Surveillance Consultant Jake Sullivan shakes hands with China's Head of state Xi Jinping during their appointment at the Great Venue of people in Beijing on August 29, 2024. Trevor HunnicuttBEIJING u00e2 $" Chinese President Xi Jinping told USA national safety expert Jake Sullivan in the course of a conference Thursday that Beijing hopes Washington will find "an appropriate way" to hit it off." While great improvements have actually occurred in the two countries as well as in China-U.S. connections, China's commitment to the goal of a steady, healthy and also maintainable China-U.S. relationship stays unmodified," Xi mentioned, depending on to an English-language release discussed by China's Department of Foreign Affairs.Tensions in between the planet's 2 most extensive economic climates have risen over the last few years, splashing over from business right into financing and also technology.The Chinese leader stated Thursday he really hopes the U.S. will check out China's growth "in a positive" illumination as well as "work with China to discover a right way for pair of major countries to quadrate one another," depending on to Beijing.Sullivan, consultant to the outbound Biden management, gotten there in Beijing Tuesday for pair of days of conferences with Wang Yi, China's best ambassador. On Thursday, Sullivan met with Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Commission.This is actually Sullivan's first trip to China as national security consultant, regardless of having complied with numerous times with Wang in latest years.The final main travel to China by an U.S. president's nationwide safety advisor remained in 2016, when Susan Rice traveled to Beijing under the Obama administration.U.S. President Joe Biden as well as Xi have decided to talk by phone in "coming weeks," the White Residence claimed Wednesday. Sullivan is scheduled to leave China later on Thursday.While the outcome of November's USA governmental political election stays uncertain, being difficult on Beijing is a rare concern that both U.S. political gatherings concede on.Biden left of the united state governmental race this summer season, subscribing his Vice Head of state Kamala Harris as the Democrat nominee.Harris' current national safety advisor, Phil Gordon, said in May at a Council on Foreign Relations event that the "China challenge" is a lot more than Taiwan, and also needs making sure that Beijing "doesn't have the state-of-the-art modern technology, knowledge and also army functionalities that may challenge us.".