Watch as Trump ignores questions about Taiwan during state visit

Both leaders addressed a state banquet on Thursday, focusing on the stability of relations between the two countries.

President Xi described the relationship between them as the world’s most consequential, warning that both sides must "never mess it up".

This perhaps the reason, somewhat unusually, President Trump did not take any questions from the media.

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