BEIJING, Feb.22 (Xinhua) – China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday called for mutual respect, enhanced dialogue and mutually beneficial cooperation to restore Sino-relations. Americans on the right track.
Wang made the remarks during a speech at the opening of the Lanting Forum in Beijing, entitled “Promoting Dialogue and Cooperation and Handling Disputes: Putting Sino-US Relations Back on Track” .
It is important to respect each other and not interfere in the internal affairs of the other, he said, adding that this is a basic standard governing international relations. Noting that China has always respected the choices made by the American people, Wang said the country does not intend to challenge or replace the United States and is ready to have peaceful coexistence and seek common development with the United States.
“We hope that the United States will respect the fundamental interests, national dignity and the right to development of China. We urge the United States to stop sullying the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese political system, to stop being colluding with or even supporting the erroneous words and actions of the separatist forces which seek “Taiwan independence”, and to stop compromising China’s sovereignty and security through internal affairs concerning Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet, “he added.
Wang stressed the importance of stepping up dialogue and properly handling disputes, saying that at present, the two sides should follow the spirit of the phone call between the two presidents on the eve of the Chinese New Year, act in the fundamental interests of both peoples, adopt a forward-looking, open and inclusive attitude, and restart or establish dialogue mechanisms in different fields and at different levels.
“China is, as always, open to dialogue. We are willing to have frank communication with the US side and engage in dialogue aimed at resolving the issues,” Wang said.
He called for efforts to move in the same direction to relaunch mutually beneficial cooperation, saying that with the successive emergence of sensitive regional issues and global challenges, areas of Sino-US cooperation are expanding rather than failing. narrowed, and that the prospects for interaction widened rather than narrowed.
According to him, China is ready to coordinate its policies and work with the United States in three areas, namely COVID-19, climate change and the global economic recovery.
Wang stressed the importance of paving the way for resuming bilateral exchanges in all fields, noting that China hopes the US side will act as soon as possible to lift its restrictions on Chinese educational and cultural groups, overseas Chinese media and business institutions in the United States, to remove obstacles to the interaction of subnational government and social sectors of the United States with China, and to encourage and support the resumption of normal exchange programs between universities and research institutes.
“China is ready to work with the United States with an open mind to build an environment conducive to people-to-people exchanges,” he said.
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