China wants to improve relations with America, willing to work together for global challenges

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that China is willing to cooperate with the United States as the two sides manage their differences and work together to respond to global challenges, according to Chinese state media. Whether the United States and China can establish the right way to get along will be important for the world, Xi said in a paper delivered at the annual dinner of the New York-headquartered National Committee on United States-China Relations.

Xi’s call for more stable bilateral relations, which he says “must be built on the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation”, comes as Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s important visit to Washington later this week The top Chinese diplomat’s visit from Thursday to Saturday will be the highest-level in-person engagement ahead of an expected meeting between US President Joe Biden and Xi in San Francisco at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November. Several top US officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, met with their Chinese counterparts in Beijing this summer.

Washington’s top priority is to ensure that there is intense competition between the world’s two largest economies and that their disagreements on a range of issues from trade to Taiwan and the South China Sea do not escalate into conflict. China’s state-controlled Global Times said Chinese observers believed (Wang’s) visit would pave the way for a possible meeting between the two countries’ heads of state, but added that Washington needed to address Beijing’s concerns and demonstrate its own A concerted effort is needed to show honesty.