.United States National Safety Expert Jake Sullivan drinks hands along with China's Head of state Xi Jinping during the course of their appointment at the Great Venue of the People in Beijing on August 29, 2024. Trevor HunnicuttBEIJING u00e2 $" Chinese Head of state Xi Jinping said to united state national safety consultant Jake Sullivan in the course of a meeting Thursday that Beijing really hopes Washington will find "an appropriate means" to hit it off." While fantastic changes have actually taken place in the two nations as well as in China-U.S. relationships, China's commitment to the target of a secure, healthy and balanced and also lasting China-U.S. relationship continues to be unchanged," Xi mentioned, depending on to an English-language launch discussed by China's Administrative agency of Foreign Affairs.Tensions between the globe's two most extensive economies have actually intensified in recent times, spilling over coming from field in to money and also technology.The Chinese innovator mentioned Thursday he hopes the USA would see China's development "in a beneficial" illumination and also "team up with China to discover an appropriate way for pair of significant nations to quadrate each others," according to Beijing.Sullivan, expert to the outward bound Biden management, arrived in Beijing Tuesday for 2 times of meetings along with Wang Yi, China's leading ambassador. On Thursday, Sullivan met with Zhang Youxia, bad habit leader of the Mandarin Communist Gathering's Central Armed force Commission.This is Sullivan's 1st excursion to China as nationwide protection consultant, in spite of having actually satisfied multiple times with Wang in current years.The final main excursion to China through an U.S. president's national safety and security expert resided in 2016, when Susan Rice traveled to Beijing under the Obama administration.U.S. President Joe Biden and also Xi have actually determined to talk by phone in "arriving weeks," the White Residence pointed out Wednesday. Sullivan is actually scheduled to leave China eventually Thursday.While the outcome of November's USA presidential election stays unclear, being tough on Beijing is a rare problem that each united state political events concur on.Biden dropped out of the U.S. governmental race this summer season, endorsing his Bad habit Head of state Kamala Harris as the Democrat nominee.Harris' current nationwide surveillance advisor, Phil Gordon, claimed in May at an Authorities on Foreign Relations activity that the "China obstacle" is actually a lot greater than Taiwan, as well as needs making certain that Beijing "doesn't possess the state-of-the-art modern technology, knowledge as well as armed forces capabilities that may challenge our team.".