Avoid suspicions, says China’s US envoy
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CHINA and the United States must avoid being overly suspicious of each other’s strategic intentions, China’s ambassador to the United States said yesterday as he looked ahead to the presidency of Donald Trump.
Trump lambasted China throughout the US election campaign, drumming up headlines with his pledges to slap 45 percent tariffs on imported Chinese goods and to label the country a currency manipulator.
The billionaire also vowed to build up the US Navy in what advisers say will be a strategy in the Asia-Pacific region.
China’s Washington envoy, Cui Tiankai, told a film screening to commemorate the 1979 normalization of China-US ties that, after “a most unusual political season,” it was important to build consensus and identify common ground.
He said both countries were already cooperating on many issues, but added: “We have to make greater efforts to promote better mutual understanding and we should be careful not to be overly suspicious about each other’s strategic intentions.
“There are people here in the United States who believe that everything that China does is aimed at challenging the United States’ global dominance, and there are people who believe that everything the US is doing is aimed at containing China.
“I think both views are wrong.”
There would inevitably be problems and challenges in the next four years, Cui said, but he was “quite confident that, on the whole, the relationship will move forward on a stable and right track.”
Cui said the countries had a shared responsibility to cooperate on issues such as terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
“We both want stability in the world. We both strive for a stronger global economy, and we both need a better natural environment. Common goals call for a close partnership.”
When Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone on Monday, Xi told the US president-elect that cooperation was the only choice for the world’s two largest economies. Trump said they had established a “clear sense of mutual respect.”
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