China welcomes Donald Trump as US President
Monitoring Desk
Friday - January 20, 2017
BEIJING (China): Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying on Thursday expressed good wishes for United States (US) President-elect Donald Trump expected to take oath today as the new US President.
She said the China-US relationship is one of the most important relations in the world.
China and the US are the world’s top two economies as the largest developing country and the largest developed country respectively.
A sound and stable development of bilateral ties meets the common interests of the people in the two countries.
The growth of bilateral ties over the last few years has fully demonstrated that China and the US have far more common interests than differences, and when China and the US join hands, great deeds can be done for the benefits of the two countries and the world.
Whether it is for the interests of China and the US and the two peoples, or for world peace, stability and development, we have every reason to believe and expect that China and the US can work together to ensure that bilateral ties move forward along the right track in a sound and stable way.
For the specific issues and differences between the two countries, China and the US should approach each other in a constructive way to enhance mutual understanding, avoid misinterpretation and misjudgment, manage differences in a constructive way, making sure that China-US relations can grow in a sound and stable manner.
We wish to work with the new US administration, uphold the principles of non-confrontation, non-conflict, mutual respect and win-win cooperation, and expand all-over cooperation on bilateral, regional and global issues, so that bilateral relations can make greater strides at a new starting point.
On Taiwanese delegation attending US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony as US President, Hua said that China opposes any moves by the Taiwan authority for whatever excuses to send people to the US to conduct activities that will disturb or undermine Sino-US relations.
We once again urge relevant parties in the US to allow no delegation sent by the Taiwan authority to attend the inauguration ceremony of the President, and not to have any official contact with Taiwan.
On Sino-US relations during the time US President Barrack Obama was in office, Hua said that China-US relations have made significant and positive progress under the concerted efforts of the two sides.
Over the past three years or so, in particular, President Xi Jinping and US President Obama met for 9 times in California, Beijing, Washington DC and Hangzhou.
The two sides have been engaging with each other closely at various levels including between the leadership, and remarkable achievements have been seen in all-around cooperation at bilateral, regional and global levels.
The amount of China-US trade volumes, bilateral investment and mutual visits of personnel all hit record highs.
The two sides also made great progress in combating climate change, moving forward negotiations on the bilateral investment agreement, establishing mutual-trust mechanism between the two military, striking against cyber crimes, and responding to the Ebola epidemic in Africa.
All these testify to the strategic weight and global influence carried by the China-US relationship.
China and the US have far more common interests than differences, and when China and the US cooperate, great deeds can be accomplished for the benefits of the two countries and the world.
Reviewing how China-US relations have fared over the past eight years allows both China and the US to learn something valuable.
The first lesson is to stick to the right direction. Boasting greater common interests than differences, the two sides should try their best to be friends and partners, not adversaries and enemies.
The second is to make the pie of bilateral cooperation bigger. The two countries working together can accomplish great deeds, not just win-win for China and the US, but win-win for all.
The third is to manage sensitive issues in a constructive way. We should look at things through the other party's perspective, respect each other’s core interests and major concerns, pursue in-depth dialogues and communication on the basis of equality and mutual respect so that misinterpretation and misjudgment can be avoided, mange differences in a constructive way and make sure that China-US relations can grow in a sound and stable manner.
These helpful experiences are worth carrying forward.
We look forward to working with the US to uphold the principles of non-confrontation, non-conflict, mutual respect and win-win cooperation, expand bilateral cooperation in various fields and properly manage disputes so that bilateral relations can make greater strides at a new starting point.
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