Filoli Estate, San Francisco – The Filoli Estate in San Francisco hosted a summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden. The two leaders had a candid and in-depth conversation about significant international concerns affecting development and peace as well as broad and strategic issues that are critical to the future of US-China relations.
As the world enters a period of unparalleled change, President Xi Jinping said that China and the US have two options: either maintain the zero-sum mentality that fuels rivalry and conflict and drives the world towards instability and division, or strengthen solidarity and cooperation and collaborate to address global issues and advance global security and prosperity.
The two choices point to two different directions that will influence how Earth and humans evolve in the future. The most important bilateral alliance in the world, that between the United States and China, must be understood and visualised in the context of this wider picture. Turning away from one another is not an option for the US and China. It is not possible to redesign the other from one side. Confrontation and disagreement also have detrimental impacts on both sides. Major-country competition is not the answer to the problems that the US, China, and the rest of the world are experiencing. The world is big enough to sustain both countries, and when one prospers, it opens doors for the other.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement in which President Xi Jinping elaborated on China’s development prospects, strategic objective, and the essential elements of modernization and their applicability. He noted that China’s development is driven by its inherent logic and dynamism.
China is promoting the massive rebirth of the Chinese people on all fronts through modernization. China said that neither the outmoded path of colonisation and pillage nor the wrong path of pursuing hegemony with growing force would be pursued. China stated that it does not export its philosophy and does not intend to overtake or depose the United States. Similarly, US containment and repression strategies toward.
President Xi Jinping emphasised that the lessons from 50 years of China-US ties, as well as major international wars throughout history, are mutual respect, peaceful cohabitation, and win-win collaboration.
It is suggested that both China and the US should work very hard. Together, the two parties should establish five pillars for China-US relations in San Francisco, adopting a new vision which includes, jointly developing a right perception, jointly managing disagreements effectively, jointly advancing mutually beneficial cooperation, jointly shouldering responsibilities as major countries, jointly promoting people-to-people exchanges.
Photo credit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
