Presidents: Healthy China-US relations are what world wants
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CHINESE President Xi Jinping and his United States counterpart Barack Obama met for the final time during Obama’s presidency on Saturday and agreed to maintain healthy and steady development of bilateral relations between the two powers.
China and the US had great responsibilities and had broad common interest in safeguarding world peace and stability, and promoting global development and prosperity, the Chinese president said, adding that a long-term, stable and healthy growth of China-US ties serves the fundamental interest of both peoples and is widely expected by the international community.
Xi said he had a phone conversation with Donald Trump after the Republican was elected the next US president. The Chinese president said he was willing to work with Trump to expand cooperation in various fields at bilateral, regional and global levels, and manage differences in a constructive way, so as to realize non-confrontation, mutual respect, win-win cooperation, and greater progress for China-US ties from a new start point.
Xi and Obama were meeting in Lima, Peru, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
For much of Obama’s presidency, China and the US have slowly improved cooperation and tried to limit the fallout from disputes.
Xi said he wanted to see cooperation continue.
“I hope the two sides will work together to focus on cooperation, manage our differences, and make sure there is a smooth transition in the relationship and that it will continue to grow going forward.”
The two leaders have met nine times in over three years.
Obama said he wanted to “take this opportunity to note our work together to build a more durable and productive set of bilateral ties.”
“I continue to believe that a constructive US-China relationship benefits our two peoples and benefits the entire globe,” he said.
“We’ve demonstrated what’s possible when our two countries work together,” he said.
Increased mutual trust
Recalling his close contact with China’s president in recent years, Obama said he and Xi had forged a candid, friendly and constructive relationship and increased mutual trust.
In more than three years, the US and China had jointly dealt with challenges and effectively managed differences, while bilateral consultation and cooperation mechanisms had yielded rich results, said Obama.
The two sides had carried out cooperation on such issues as promoting global growth, reaching an agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue, and addressing the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, he said, highlighting their key roles in driving forward international efforts in dealing with climate change.
Calling the US-China relationship the most significant bilateral relationship in the world, the US president said a constructive bilateral relationship was beneficial to both peoples and the international community at large.
Obama told Xi that he had underlined the importance of US-China relations to Trump. The US side was ready to develop a more sustained, fruitful relationship with China, the American president added.
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