[What is the way for China and the United States to get along] The main axis of firm and peaceful development in the interweaving of chaos
At the invitation of US President Biden, the top leader of president, China will go to the United States to hold the first meeting of the US dollar, and at the same time be invited to attend the 30th informal meeting of APEC leaders.
At present, Sino-US relations are still at a critical crossroads to stop falling and stabilize, and the international situation is chaotic and intertwined.
The chairman of the Supreme Leader went to the United States again, and even conveyed the view of Sino-US relations.Historical determination.
As the Supreme Leader Chairman said:
The world is at a major historical turning point. Countries need to face unprecedented challenges
We should also seize unprecedented opportunities.
We should treat and handle Sino-US relations from this height.
In the face of destructive forces, what is the certainty and bottom line of our handling of Sino-US relations? The Chairman of the Supreme Leader gave an answer.
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At the upcoming first meeting between China and the United States, the two heads of state will have in-depth communication on strategic, overall and directional issues related to Sino-US relations and major issues related to world peace and development.
||| Master Tan arrived in San Francisco, USA.
As the most important bilateral relationship in the world, how China and the United States get along has been explained many times by the Chairman of the Supreme Leader:
mutual respect
live in peace
Win-win cooperation
These 12 words are the fundamental coordinates for Sino-US relations not to drift, stall or collide.
Among them, "mutual respect" isFirst principleIt is even more necessary for the United States to be cautious.
Today, the difficulties in Sino-US relations are related to the failure of the United States to respect each other. In February this year, the hype and political farce surrounding the unmanned airship incident in the United States led to a spiral decline in Sino-US relations.
Since the second half of the year, the United States has frequently shown its desire to communicate with China. American political and business circles frequently come to China, among whichFive dialsThe guests were met by the Chairman of the Supreme Leader. Just this month, local officials from 22 states visited China.
The gesture of the US side has conveyed some signals of "mutual respect".
However, it is clear to us that the wrong economic and trade policy of the United States towards China has not changed, the United States has intensified its suppression of China in the high-tech field, and the United States still defines China as "the most serious geopolitical challenge". The core of the core interests of the United States towards China — — The Taiwan Province issue is still interfering and "pointing fingers".
How to understand this contradiction, American scholar Wang Jisi shared his observation. In the past two years, he has visited the United States four times in a row. He mentioned:
“Americans are almost unanimous, that is, they hope that US-China relations will be maintained ‘ Stability ’ , but right ‘ Improve ’ Have no hope. That is to say, on the one hand, the United States should maintain its strategic competitive posture with China, in order to ‘ Win by competition ’ We will not hesitate to sacrifice some economic interests and pay a certain political price. On the other hand, we must maintain the general stability of relations with China, so as not to affect the overall global strategic situation of the United States or intensify domestic contradictions. "
Sino-US relations have always been multifaceted. The United States knows the benefits of the stability of Sino-US relations, but it will create all kinds of obstacles and rhetoric for Sino-US relations, which is both a "guardrail" and a "dichotomy".
No matter what the rhetoric is, China has always maintained its existing rhythm, and China will maintain its determination and defend its development rights and interests.
Tan Zhu talked about China’s "six major concerns" as early as a few days ago.
As soon as the "six major concerns" were released, many American media, including the Associated Press and Bloomberg, quoted and analyzed Tan Zhu’s point of view, and the most cited one was this sentence:
“More than 1,300 China enterprises are being sanctioned by the United States. If the United States wants to cooperate with China, it needs ‘ Streamline ’ On this list, the United States must take concrete steps so that China and the United States can work together to meet the challenges."
In fact, before US Secretary of Commerce Raimundo visited China, the US Department of Commerce had announced that 27 China entities would be removed from the "unverified list". Since the United States wants to maintain "stability", it needs to continue to "slim down" the so-called sanctions list, and it needs to continue to implement "mutual respect".
Last year, the China market contributed 62%, 27%, 22% and 18% to the revenues of four American high-tech companies, namely Qualcomm, Intel, Tesla and Apple respectively.
||| Qualcomm participated in China International Import Expo in the sixth year.
This year, the first American guest met by the Supreme Leader — — Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft Corporation, whose Microsoft Asia Research Institute in China is the largest research institute of Microsoft outside the United States.
The United States knows very well that if it does not treat China with respect, the so-called "starting from the position of strength" to contain China is costly and costly.
In the past few days, NVIDIA has played the "catch me if you can" with Washington. In order to avoid the White House’s restrictions on China, he is going to customize the chips exported to China. If the White House doesn’t have the political courage to face up to and respect China, it can only watch American companies suffer and pay the bill.
To solve this dilemma, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader said:
Sino-US relations should not be about you losing and me winning.
Zero-sum game of your prosperity and my decline
The success of China and the United States is an opportunity rather than a challenge to each other.
The vast earth fully accommodates the respective development of China and the United States.
Common prosperity
Since the beginning of this year, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader has interacted with a number of American folks by reply:
These letters came from Americans, including American families doing business in China and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, which started the "ice-breaking trip" of Sino-American cultural exchanges. These people prove that people from different countries, different families and different cultural backgrounds can establish friendship and respect each other.
||| In 1973, the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra held its first concert in China.
From the first day of contact between China and the United States, both sides knew that they were dealing with a country that was different in many aspects, but this did not affect the exchanges between the two countries.
China never wanted to change the United States, it was to respect the United States. For decades, the United States has been trying to shape or change China, which is obviously a crooked road and can only fail. Only with respect can we coexist.
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In 2013, the place where Chairman Supreme Leader visited the United States for the first time, like today, was also California.
Ten years ago, China, which had just become the second largest economy in the world, attracted the "key attention" of the United States. Soon, an "Asia-Pacific rebalancing strategy" was concocted to disrupt China’s periphery and curb China’s development, and the peace around China was once disturbed. At the same time, the United States also intends to exclude China from the Asia-Pacific economic circle through the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) being negotiated with other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
However, under such circumstances, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader paid his first visit to the United States after taking office in president. At the beginning of the talks, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader made clear his purpose:
The main purpose is to plan a blueprint for the development of Sino-US relations.
Carry out "trans-Pacific cooperation"
Since then, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader has gone beyond the "small circle" framework of the United States and given the principle of getting along with China and the United States. China and the United States can coexist peacefully and with the goal of development. More than that, at the APEC summit in the same year, the top leader attended for the first time as president and proposedFirmly establish the community consciousness of Asia-Pacific destiny. When the United States began to try to confuse the Asia-Pacific region with the framework of "small circle", China told all countries in the Asia-Pacific region that we were a community of destiny.
As a result, the idea advocated by China was written into the common declaration of APEC and became the common will of all APEC members, including the United States.
China’s adherence to the principle of peaceful coexistence between China and the United States,It has become the biggest source of stability in Sino-US relations.
In 2015, Chairman Supreme Leader visited the United States again and began to lead Sino-US relations to a broader space.
The peaceful coexistence between China and the United States has transformed as many as 49 concrete achievements between China and the United States, involving various fields such as economy, trade, security, finance, agriculture, technology and local cooperation.
In fact, when I visited the United States for the second time, the headwind had already started to rise in the United States.
And why that visit was fruitful, a detail can explain the problem very well.
During his visit at that time, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader attended more than 10 activities in the United States, and had all-round exchanges with US congressmen, local provincial and state officials, Chinese and American entrepreneurs, representatives of the Internet field in China and the United States, American teenagers, Microsoft and Boeing.
At a forum of governors of China and the United States, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader specifically talked about the reasons:
In the final analysis, state-to-state relations need people’s support.
And ultimately serve the people.
The place is the closest to the people.
Is local cooperation good?
Whether the cooperation at the national level can take root.
To this end,I have always attached great importance to Sino-US local cooperation.
In the eyes of the Chairman of the Supreme Leader, the principle of getting along with China and the United States goes far beyond the concept and direction, but on this basis, it is concrete that the people who constitute the exchanges between China and the United States have become something that can actually take root and really be deeply rooted in the United States.
Mcmullen, a veteran of the American Flying Tigers, said something similar, and Tan was deeply impressed:
“People are all the same, and their governments may be different, but the people actually always have a wish, that is, to live and work in peace and contentment according to the customs of their ancestors."
The common desire to "live and work in peace and contentment" has promoted a new way of getting along between China and the United States. This way of getting along has shown great strength after the twists and turns in Sino-US relations.
Master Tan shared that even at the same time when the US government imposed tariffs on China, local officials from the United States came to China to discuss cooperation.
Against the wind, China’s historical strength is not only leading the way of getting along with China and the United States, but also leading the wind direction of the world.
In 2017, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader made his third visit to the United States. This time I saw the then US President Trump, and the Chairman of the Supreme Leader said:
China and the United States have good relations.
Not only beneficial to the two countries and their peoples.
It is also good for the world.
Looking at it in the context at that time, it is just reminding the United States that the anti-globalization trend is flourishing, getting along with China is beneficial to the United States, and the United States should not go further and further on the road of self-isolation.
Just before this visit to the United States, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader just attended the World Economic Forum in Davos. At the multilateral venue facing the world, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader systematically explained.China persists in its determination to promote economic globalization and open to the outside world.
Nowadays, the United States’ understanding of the way of getting along with China and the United States has been repeated, which is to suppress containment and impose sanctions, but in the end, we still have to tell the world that we are not trying to "decouple and break the chain." Getting along with China and the United States still can’t change that you have me, and I have your realistic logic.
Looking back on the past decade, Sino-US relations have never been smooth sailing. Amid the uncertainties brought by the United States, China has always been responsible for China and the United States and the people, defending China’s interests, ensuring peaceful coexistence between the two countries, and then seeking win-win cooperation.
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In the next 50 years, the most important thing in international relations is that China and the United States must find the right way to get along.
Against the background of increasingly severe global challenges, Sino-US cooperation will undoubtedly inject stability into the chaotic and intertwined world and help enhance the well-being of the people of the world.
China has always considered Sino-US relations from the perspective of the well-being of the whole world.
However, the problem is that there are always destructive forces interfering with Sino-US relations, which have been pushing them to the brink of danger, causing a freezing point in the relations between the two countries, making regional countries jittery, and making dangerous forces all over the world take the opportunity to be agitated. It is precisely because of too many uncertain and unstable factors that today’s global conflicts are particularly prominent: the Ukrainian crisis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict … …
How to face the global and complex crisis, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader has given several principles worth considering:
First, there is no winner in conflict wars.
Second, there is no simple solution to complex problems.
Third, confrontation between major powers must be avoided.
After reading these three principles, I also understand why China has always stood on the side of peace, always persuaded peace and promoted talks, and always opposed the "new cold war."
The United States is eager to cooperate with China to deal with regional conflicts. The United States even called on China to discuss with China how to prevent the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from spreading and make joint efforts with China to achieve this goal.
China has never refused to cooperate, but only if we can’t imagine cooperating and suppressing China at the same time. We can’t even imagine hurting China’s core interests while thinking about cooperation to solve transnational challenges.
If so, it will only aggravate and worsen the relations between the two countries and make the world’s disaster even deeper.
Now, a new round of global conflicts has produced a series of vicious chain reactions. According to the latest Report on the Global Food Crisis in 2023 released by FAO, the severity of global food insecurity has risen to 22.7%. The food crisis will be the most serious threat to the world in the next two years.
In the face of the crisis, cooperation between China and the United States in the right direction can inject new hope into the world.
At the China International Import Expo(CIIE) that ended not long ago, the United States sent out.The highest specification and largest exhibition group in history.Among them, almost all the agricultural associations in the United States have come.
||| The 6th China International Import Expo(CIIE) Exhibition Area of American Food and Agriculture.
As the world’s top two food producers, Sino-US agricultural cooperation is related to the world’s "rice bowl". At present,China’s hybrid rice technology has covered half of the total rice area in the United States.In addition to the United States, China’s hybrid rice has spread to nearly 70 countries, increasing the world’s total grain output by 150 million tons and feeding 400 million to 500 million people.
The cooperation between the United States and China in agricultural technology shows the responsibility that a big country should have. This kind of responsibility is not the end.
History has proved that the United States and China together., can do a lot of things that are beneficial to the world.. Whether it’s fighting terrorism or coping with the financial crisis, whether it’s promoting the Paris Agreement or promoting the settlement of the Middle East issue.
What China has always injected into the world is the way of thinking and path to solve problems. However, if the United States continues the thinking of vicious competition, it will also lead to the intensification of spillover crisis and continue to make countries enter a vicious circle of choosing sides. When security is completely placed before development, everyone can only fear for himself, and the instability of the world will only intensify.
If the United States continues to fail in Sino-US relations, I am afraid it will bring serious consequences to the world.
||| China and the United States just opened a green shipping corridor not long ago.
China and the United States should open up a big country relationship that is different from the past competition for resources and zero-sum game in innovation and exploration.China and the United States should make "Thucydides Trap" a thing of the past.
The total economic output of China and the United States exceeds one-third of the world, the total population accounts for nearly a quarter of the world, and the bilateral trade volume accounts for about one-fifth of the world. The relationship between China and the United States is deep and wide, and the world cannot bear the misunderstanding and misjudgment of both sides.China and the United States should work together to make the "law of the jungle" a thing of the past.
Chinese civilization has a history of more than 5,000 years, and it continues to this day. The United States has a history of more than 200 years, and it has also created a modern civilization worth learning from. China and the United States should learn from each other and prove that each country can have its own road to modernization.China and the United States should work together to make the "end of history" a thing of the past.
Chairman of the Supreme Leader said:
Can China and the United States handle their relations well?
The future and destiny of the world are at stake.
It is the question of the century that the two countries must answer well.
At the moment, the question of the century is waiting for an answer from San Francisco. The whole world is waiting for the United States to make the right choice.