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		</div><p>Donald Trump has told President Xi Jinping that America will honour Washington&#8217;s &#8220;one China&#8221; policy, which has been at the centre of friction between the global powers since his election as US president.</p>
<p>During a phone call on Thursday night Mr Trump &#8220;agreed, at the request of President Xi&#8221;, to honour the policy that requires Washington to maintain only unofficial ties with China&#8217;s rival Taiwan, the White House said.</p>
<p>The White House described the call as &#8220;extremely cordial&#8221; and said the two leaders had invited each other to visit.</p>
<p>Before taking office, Mr Trump questioned the policy, which shifted diplomatic recognition from self-governing Taiwan to China in 1979, and said it was open to negotiation.</p>
<p>China has bristled at the &#8220;one China&#8221; comments by Mr Trump, who wants to pressure Beijing to narrow its huge trade surplus with America.</p>
<p>Mr Trump had accused Beijing of unfair trade practices, criticised China&#8217;s military build-up in the South China Sea and accused China of doing too little to pressure North Korea.<br />
Some had questioned why Mr Trump had taken so long to call Mr Xi given that he had already spoken with more than a dozen world leaders.</p>
<p>Chinese observers also noted that Mr Trump had broken with his predecessors in not extending good wishes to the Chinese people on the occasion of last month&#8217;s Lunar New Year holiday, before issuing of a belated greeting on Wednesday.</p>
<p>China claims Taiwan as its own territory and complained after Mr Trump upset decades of diplomatic precedent by talking by phone with Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen shortly after winning November&#8217;s presidential election.</p>
<p>In December, Mr Trump said in an interview that he did not feel &#8220;bound&#8221; by the decades-old China policy unless the US could gain concessions in trade and other areas.</p>
<p>Washington has robust unofficial relations with Taiwan and provides it with arms to guard against Beijing&#8217;s threat to use force to reunify.</p>
<p>Underscoring uncertainty in the relationship, the call between the leaders came as the US Pacific Command reported a Chinese jet and a US Navy patrol plane had an &#8220;unsafe&#8221; encounter over the South China Sea this week.</p>
<p>Pacific Command spokesman Robert Shuford said on Friday that the &#8220;interaction&#8221; between a Chinese KJ-200 early warning aircraft and a US Navy P-3C plane took place on Wednesday in international airspace.<br />
He did not say what was unsafe about the encounter but said the US plane was on a routine mission and operating according to international law.</p>
<p>China routinely complains about US military surveillance missions close to its southern island province of Hainan, which is home to numerous sensitive military installations.</p>
<p>A collision between a US EP-3 surveillance plane and a Chinese naval air force jet in April 2001 resulted in the death of the Chinese pilot and the 10-day detention of the US air crew by China.</p>
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