“China welcomes a confident, open, prosperous and prosperous US.”
Beijing:
China is willing to cooperate with the United States, but cooperation must be a “two-way street,” Chinese President Xi Jinping told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during their meeting in Beijing on Friday. fair.
Stating that the multiplicity and complexity of global challenges require the US and China to work together, President Xi said that Beijing and Washington should be partners and not rivals.
“China is willing to cooperate, but cooperation must be a two-way street. China is not afraid of competition, but competition must be about progressing together, rather than playing a zero-sum game. China is committed to non-alliance, and the US should not create small blocs. Although each side may have its friends and partners, it should not target, oppose or harm the other,” the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
China welcomes the confident, open, prosperous and prosperous US, and hopes that the US will also look at China’s development in a positive light, he added.
“Over the past 45 years, the relationship has gone through thick and thin, and both sides can draw some important lessons: China and the United States should be partners rather than rivals; help each other succeed rather than harm each other ; seek common ground and reserves of differences rather than engage in fierce competition; and honor words with actions rather than saying one thing but doing another,” the statement further read.
President Xi also stated the hope that both countries will continue to work actively to truly stabilize, improve and advance bilateral relations.
“As a Chinese saying goes: “No progress means regression.” It also applies to China-US relations. It is hoped that the two teams will continue to work actively to carry out the vision of San Francisco, so as to truly stabilize, improve and advance bilateral relations,” Xi said.
Blinken noted that since President Biden and President Xi met in San Francisco, the US and China have made good progress in their cooperation in areas such as bilateral interactions, counter-narcotics, artificial intelligence and people-to-people exchanges. The multiplicity and complexity of the challenges facing the world require “the US and China to work together,” the statement added.
The visit aims to reinforce the turbulent relationship between the two countries, despite disputes over the economy, national security and geopolitical frictions, according to the New York Times.
The US State Department, in its statement, said the US and China had “in-depth, substantive and constructive discussions” on key priorities in the bilateral relationship and on a range of regional and global issues.
Secretary Blinken emphasized that the US will continue to use diplomacy to make progress in areas of disagreement and areas of cooperation that are important to the American people and the world, as part of responsible management of competition with the PRC (China).
He also pressed for continued progress in implementing Woodside Summit leaders’ commitments on key issues, including advancing counternarcotics cooperation to stop the global flow of synthetic drugs – including fentanyl and its chemical precursors – into the United States, improving communication between military personnel. to avoid miscalculations and conflicts, and launch conversations about managing the risk and security challenges posed by advanced forms of artificial intelligence, the State Department added.
Earlier on April 24, Blinken, who is on his second visit to China this year, said he was in China “to make progress on issues that matter most to the American people, including reducing fentanyl trafficking.”
Blinken’s visit follows a visit to China by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen earlier this month.
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