TMTPOST -- U.S. president-elect Donald Trump said on Friday he held a “very good” phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping that day, and exchanged view about hot topics including trade and TikTok.

Credit：Xinhua News Agency

"I just spoke to Chairman Xi Jinping of China. The call was a very good one for both China and the U.S.A. It is my expectation that we will solve many problems together, and starting immediately," Trump wrote in a post to his Truth Social platform. "We discussed balancing Trade, Fentanyl, TikTok, and many other subjects. President Xi and I will do everything possible to make the World more peaceful and safe!"

The phone call was deemed as a move that could set the tone for China-U.S. relations during Trump’s second presidential term, though the president-elect didn’t provide more details about discussion between the leaders of the world’s top two economies.

During the telephone conversation, Xi pointed out that both he and Trump attach great importance to interaction with each other, hope that China-U.S. ties will have a good start in the new U.S. presidential term, and stand ready to push China-U.S. relations to make greater progress from a new starting point, reported China’s state news agency Xinhua on Friday.

Xi said that it is inevitable that China and the United States, two major countries with different national conditions, have some differences, and the key is to respect each other's core interests and major concerns, and find appropriate ways to solve issues, according to the report.

Xi called for the U.S. government to handle the Taiwan question with caution as it concerns China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity. He said the nature of China-U.S. economic and trade relations is mutually beneficial and win-win, and confrontation and conflict should not be the choice of the two countries.

Xi also called on both sides to step up cooperation and do more great, practical and good things that are conducive to the two countries and the world at large based on the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, so as to keep the two giant ships of China and the United States moving forward on the course of stable, healthy and sustainable development.

Trump said he cherishes his great relationship with Xi, hopes to continue to maintain dialogue and communication, and looks forward to meeting Xi at an early date, according to the Xinhua report. Trump also said China and U.S. should maintain long-lasting friendship and work together to safeguard global peace, per the report.

Earlier on Friday, Trump told CNN he will make his decision on TikTok after the Supreme Court justices unanimously upheld a sell-or-ban law on the popular short video application that has around 170 million American users. Trump was earlier this week reported to weighdifferent options to save TikTok, one of which is an executive order that would pause enforcement of the prohibition on Sunday for 60 to 90 days when he takes office.

Friday also saw a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced that at US invitation, President Xi's special representative, Vice President Han Zheng will attend the inauguration ceremony of President Trump on January 20 in Washington, DC.

"We stand ready to work with the new US government to enhance dialogue and communication, properly manage differences, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, jointly pursue a stable, healthy and sustainable China-US relationship and find the right way for the two countries to get along with each other," the spokesperson added.

The decision to send Vice President came more than a month after Trump extended the unusual invitation to Xi. The Associated Press (AP) viewed the significance as “a break from tradition since no heads of state have previously made an official visit to the U.S. for the inauguration.”

While dispatching a special envoy to attend a foreign president's inauguration is in line with China's diplomatic practice, a vice president is the highest level special envoy to attend an inauguration, Diao Daming, a professor at the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China, told the state-backed newspaper the Global Times.