China Daily: 40 years of diplomatic ties should not be squandered
China Daily |
Updated: 2018-12-12 15:09
Both China and the United States should have learned enough lessons from the ups and downs of their relations over the past four decades to know that both benefit from cooperation and suffer from confrontation. There are no winners if China and the US are antagonistic, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a forum on Dec 11, China Daily reported.
On Jan 1, 1979, China and the US issued their joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations. Since then the general trend has been for their ties to be strengthened.
There have been dips, of course; some deeper than others. Given their different social systems, cultures and development stages. Over the past 40 years, they have got to know one another better and found ways to put their disagreements behind them.
Vice-Premier Liu He spoke with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer by telephone on Tuesday morning Beijing time to put flesh on the bones of the consensus reached between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Argentina at the beginning of the month.
Both leaders agreed then that bilateral relations should develop in a coordinated, cooperative and steady manner. Their discarding of the zero-sum mentality that can plague international relations laid the foundation for the efforts to push ties away from unnecessary confrontation.
It would be good if the New Year were to herald an upturn in relations and even brighter prospects for the future as the two sides build on their leaders' consensus, a China Daily editorial stated.
Both China and the United States should have learned enough lessons from the ups and downs of their relations over the past four decades to know that both benefit from cooperation and suffer from confrontation. There are no winners if China and the US are antagonistic, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a forum on Dec 11, China Daily reported.
On Jan 1, 1979, China and the US issued their joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations. Since then the general trend has been for their ties to be strengthened.
There have been dips, of course; some deeper than others. Given their different social systems, cultures and development stages. Over the past 40 years, they have got to know one another better and found ways to put their disagreements behind them.
Vice-Premier Liu He spoke with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer by telephone on Tuesday morning Beijing time to put flesh on the bones of the consensus reached between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Argentina at the beginning of the month.
Both leaders agreed then that bilateral relations should develop in a coordinated, cooperative and steady manner. Their discarding of the zero-sum mentality that can plague international relations laid the foundation for the efforts to push ties away from unnecessary confrontation.
It would be good if the New Year were to herald an upturn in relations and even brighter prospects for the future as the two sides build on their leaders' consensus, a China Daily editorial stated.
