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Eurasia
29/08/2024 19:52
Xi pointed out that in this changing and turbulent world, countries need solidarity and coordination, not division or confrontation. People want openness and progress, not exclusion or regress. As two major countries, China and the United States should be responsible for history, for the people and for the world, and should be a source of stability for world peace and a propeller for common development, Xinhua reported.
Xi stressed that when China and the United States, two major countries, engage with each other, the No. 1 issue is to develop a right strategic perception, and they need to first and foremost find a good answer to the overarching question: Are China and the United States rivals or partners?
China's foreign policy is open and transparent and its strategic intentions are aboveboard, both of which have been highly consistent and stable, Xi said, adding that China is focused on managing its own affairs well and will continue deepening reform comprehensively to further improve and develop the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics that suits its national conditions.
Xi pointed out that China's U.S. policy is highly consistent. While great changes have taken place in the two countries and in China-U.S. relations, China's commitment to the goal of a stable, healthy and sustainable China-U.S. relationship remains unchanged, its principle in handling the relationship based on mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation remains unchanged, its position of firmly safeguarding the country's sovereignty, security and development interests remains unchanged, and its efforts to carry forward the traditional friendship between the Chinese and American people remain unchanged, he said.
According to South China Morning Post, Sullivan said Washington’s relationship with Beijing would remain competitive but the two major powers needed to manage ties responsibly. “We’re doing that through this very detailed [and] painstaking multiple rounds of diplomatic effort,” he said.
“And it’s not to arrive at a certain end result where everything’s just resolved. It’s rather to arrive on a stable basis so that each of us can stand up for our interests," Sullivan pointed out. “That is what this trip was about. That’s what the diplomacy of the last few years has been about. And we do believe that it puts us in a position to increase the prospect of stability in the relationship.”
The two sides agreed to continue to implement the important consensus reached at the San Francisco meeting between the two heads of state, maintain high-level exchanges and communication at all levels, and continue to carry out cooperation in drug control, law enforcement, repatriation of illegal immigrants, and climate change mitigation.
Wang and Sullivan also agreed to institutional arrangements for holding a video call between theater leaders of the two militaries as well as the second round of China-U.S. intergovernmental dialogue on artificial intelligence at an appropriate time
