President Xi Jinping met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing.
Durin the meeting, Xi enphasized that a stable China-US relationship is necessary for the worldthe world as the world is developing and the times are changing.
He further stated that the future and fate of humanity depend on whether the two nations can coexist peacefully as the planet Earth is big enough to accommodate the respective development and common prosperity of China and the United States. The Chinese, like the Americans, are dignified, confident and self-reliant people.
Both of them are entitled to strive for a better life. The two nations' shared interests should be respected, and their individual success should be seen as an opportunity rather than a threat to one another.
The current situation of China-U.S. ties is of widespread importance to the international community. It does not want to see China and the United States at odds with one another, fighting, or taking sides.
He also states that, it anticipates peaceful coexistence between the two nations as well as ties that are cordial and cooperative. The two nations should handle China-U.S. ties appropriately and behave with a sense of responsibility for history, for the people, and for the globe.
In doing so, they may support world peace and progress while also assisting in stabilizing, reassuring, and improving the unstable and chaotic world, he stated.
President Xi emphasized that major-country competition does not reflect the current trend and cannot even begin to address American problems or global challenges.
China respects American interests and does not try to overthrow or threaten the US. In a similar manner, the United States must respect China and refrain from interfering with its legal rights and interests.
Aside from denying the other side of its rightful right to development, neither party should attempt to mold the other side according to its own preferences.
Blinken is the first US Secretary of State to visit Beijing in five years and his talks with senior Chinese officials are seen as a key litmus test for whether some sort of detente can be forged at a time of lingering distrust.
Uncertainty around whether Xi and Blinken would meet during the two-day visit further highlighted the fraught US-China relations and a failure to schedule a face to face would have been seen by Washington as a slight, breaking with a number of previous visits from top American diplomats.
The meeting, which took place at Beijing’s cavernous Great Hall of the People, was only publicly announced by the US about an hour before it went ahead. It lasted roughly half an hour, beginning at 4:34 p.m. local time and ended at 5:09 p.m., a State Department official said.
Xi further states that China consistently wants to see a strong and stable relationship between the two nations and is confident that they can work through their differences and find a solution based on respect, peaceful cohabitation, and win-win cooperation.
He urged the U.S. side to take a logical and practical approach and cooperate with China in the same vein. In order to develop and stabilize China-U.S. relations, President Xi emphasized that both parties must remain steadfast in their adherence to the consensus agreements that he and President Biden had achieved in Bali.
President Xi received greetings from President Biden through Secretary Blinken. He stated that according to President Biden, China and the United States have a duty to carefully manage their relations.
The interests of the US, China, and the entire world are served by this.
The US is dedicated to sticking to the Bali agenda established by the two presidents.
The United States upholds the pledges made by President Biden, notably that it does not desire a new Cold War, that it does not aim to alter China's political system, that it does not seek to include China in its alliances, that it does not promote "Taiwan independence," and that it does not seek to engage in combat with China.
The U.S. side anticipates high-level interaction with the Chinese side, maintaining open lines of communication of dialogue, exchanges, and cooperation; of communication; of effectively handling disputes; and of these things.
Secretary Blinken was requested by President Xi to send his greetings to President Biden.
Among those in attendance at the conference were Wang Yi and Qin Gang.
