Only mutual trust, mutual benefit lead to win-win results
By Zhong Sheng
Recently, some US politicians have acted irresponsibly
and unjustly when dealing with international cooperation, especially major
country relations. They constantly released signals of confrontation, with a
wishful thinking that Uncle Sam might steal a win from the zero-sum game.
Chief economics commentator Martin Wolf of
Financial Times has well described the arbitrary acts of the US, saying that liberal
commerce is increasingly seen by the country as “trading with the enemy”.
Major countries shoulder special
responsibilities as the relations between major countries have a profound
impact on global peace and development stability.
Chinese President Xi Jinping held a telephone
conversation with his US counterpart Donald Trump a few days earlier during
which he said that as the world's two biggest economies, China and the United
States should jointly play a leading role in pushing for positive outcomes at
the G20 Osaka summit, so as to inject confidence and vitality into the global
market.
Xi’s remarks have indicted the global
significance of jointly advancing China-US relations based on coordination,
cooperation and stability.
It is noteworthy that this conversation has
revitalized the confidence of global market, which revealed the common
aspiration for cooperation between major countries of the international society.
Henry Kissinger wrote in his book On
China that “What a culmination if, forty years later, the United
States and China could merge their efforts not to shake the world, but to build
it.” What he said reflected the common expectation of the people from both
China and the US, and even beyond.
However, it’s unfortunate that some people in
the US don’t want to “merge their efforts” or cherish the results of bilateral
cooperation achieved during the past 40 years since the two countries
established diplomatic ties.
They raised additional tariffs or threatened
to do so, expanding their provocation against China to multiple fields. Major
country relations play a vital role in the international system, and the world
is showing growing concerns over the confrontation between China and the US.
US
magazine The Atlantic
warned that if Washington insists on confronting China, European countries won’t
agree with such
stance, which will inevitably lead to more problems for US-European relations.
Not long ago, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee
Hsien Loong and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan
reiterated on many occasions that it will not work for
Washington to see China as an opponent that it must contain.
They called for constructive competition among
major countries, and urged the US to allow more voices from China in making
international rules, so as to avoid a prolonged conflict and a situation where
small countries have to choose side between the largest two economies.
Some US politicians just have a heart for disrupting
and damaging the rules of international cooperation, and it seems that they don’t
care about losing their international credibility or destroying the bedrock for
trust and cooperation of the international society.
They worship the power to exert extreme
pressure, and are even longing for profits from the constantly escalated
conflict.
At present, the world is undergoing profound
development of multi-polarization and economic globalization. With closer
interdependence and interrelation among global countries, peace, development,
cooperation and win-win results are the trend of time and true aspiration of
the people.
Against such background, the shortsighted
actions of Washington will neither be supported nor succeed.
“Every great achievement was a vision before
it became a reality.”
That is the conclusion reached by an American strategist when summarizing the
development course of China-US relations. It remains to be seen whether this
conclusion will awake those who scream to “make America great again” while
waving the big stick of tariffs.
China always thinks far when dealing with
diplomatic relations. Independence, mutual understanding, strategic vision and
win-win cooperation are what major countries need to follow and also a
prerequisite to build a new type of international relations and a community
with a shared future for mankind.
China has always promoted open and inclusive
cooperation for win-win outcomes, rejected self-centered, short-sighted and
closed-door policies, upheld WTO rules and supported the multilateral trading
system so as to build an open world economy.
Beijing hopes that the US can meet China
halfway, manage differences and expand cooperation, in order to offer more
certainties and predictability for the world.
It is common knowledge that China will always
stay true to the original aspiration of cooperation and safeguard the bottom
line of justice no matter how the international landscape changes.
Cooperation represents the trend of time.
China and the US should cooperate with each other, make joint efforts to solve
global issues and improve global governance when facing the four major
challenges of deficits in trust, peace, development and governance.
During the G20 summit in Buenos Aires,
Argentina held last year, Xi pointed out that mutual trust among major
countries is the most valuable asset of the G20, and that we should preserve
and increase the value of mutual trust.
Xi’s profound remarks are of vital
significance in guiding people’s thinking on the current international affairs.
The mutual trust between major countries calls for cultivation and maintenance.
Mutual trust leads to mutual benefit, and mutual benefit leads to win-win
results.
The G20 Osaka summit is scheduled to be kicked
off soon, and people are expecting that major countries can play an active and
constructive role in promoting international relations. It’s hoped that the
summit will achieve practical results in economy and trade to make economic
globalization more open, inclusive, balanced and beneficial to all, and inject
impetus to global economic growth.
Only mutual trust, mutual benefit lead to win-win results
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