Ties at key point, Xi tells Kissinger

China hopes its relations with the United States will "move ahead in a sustainable and stable manner", President Xi Jinping said on Friday while meeting with Henry Kissinger.

The former US secretary of state came to Beijing amid uncertainties over US president-elect Donald Trump's China policy.

Kissinger, 93, who helped arrange the groundbreaking visit to China in 1972 by then-president Richard Nixon, is believed to be playing a key role in mapping out Trump's foreign policy.