Trump sends Xi good wishes

Letter calling for 'constructive' ties offers positive signal, analysts say

US President Donald Trump's letter to President Xi Jinping is a goodwill gesture that will ease efforts to find more common ground between the two countries and lower the risk of clashes in the Western Pacific, analysts said.

The White House said on Wednesday that Trump had written to Xi wishing the "Chinese people a happy Lantern Festival and a prosperous Year of the Rooster".