CHINA, U.S. AGREE TO BUILD NEW TYPE OF RELATIONS
“China will work hard to realize the Chinese
dream and promote the noble cause of peace and development for mankind”
- President Xi Jinping
“It is very much in the interests of the United
States for China’s continuous peaceful rise because if China is
successful, that helps to drive the world economy”
- President Barack Obama
Obama gives Xi redwood bench
US: President Barack Obama sent off China’s President Xi
Jinping with something not every world leader has: the huge wooden park
bench on which they sat to chat.
“President Obama’s gift to President Xi was a custom-designed park
bench. The bench is inscribed on the front with the dates of this visit,
and, in Mandarin, the fact that the bench is made of California
redwood,” the White House said in a statement, Out on a stroll of the
grounds of Sunnylands, where the leaders held their talks, Xi and Obama
sat for a moment together on the bench, said Obama’s deputy national
security adviser Ben Rhodes.
The Presidents spent eight hours together over two days working on a
rapport and on policy understandings, if not breakthroughs, on North
Korea, climate and cyber issues. AFP
US: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart,
Barack Obama, agreed to build a new type of relations between China and
the United States which could avoid the traditional path of
confrontations and conflicts between major countries.
The two leaders made the commitment at a joint press conference
following their first face-to-face meeting at Sunnylands, a 200-acre
(81-hectare) Annenberg estate in Rancho Mirage, California.
Xi said he had an in-depth, sincere and candid discussion and reached
important consensus with Obama on the domestic and foreign policies of
China and the United States, the construction of a new type of relations
between major countries, and international and regional issues of common
concern.
“I stated very clearly to Obama that China will be firmly committed
to the path of peaceful development and will unswervingly deepen reform
and open up the country,” Xi said, adding that China will work hard to
realize the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation and to promote the
noble cause of peace and development for mankind.
“By the Chinese dream, we seek to have economic prosperity, national
renewal and people’s well-beings. The Chinese dream is about peace,
development, cooperation and win-win results, and it is connected to the
American dream and beautiful dreams of people in other countries,” the
Chinese President said.
He said Obama and he believed that as the economic globalization
develops rapidly and all countries need to sail in the same boat when
faced with difficulties, China and the United States should find a new
type of relationship between major countries that is different from the
past one featuring inevitable confrontation and conflicts.
Both sides agreed to expand all levels of dialogues and
communications and keep increasing mutual understanding and trust, Xi
said. “I look forward to maintaining close exchanges with Obama through
mutual visits, bilateral meetings, exchange of phone calls and letters.”
“I invite Obama to come to China at a proper time for a similar
meeting like this and we will exchange visits as early as possible,” Xi
said.
The two sides will closely cooperate to ensure positive outcomes at a
new round of the strategic and economic dialogue, people-to-people
exchanges and high-level consultations between China and the United
States, the Chinese President said.
Chinese Minister of National Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs
will also visit the United States at invitations, he added.
The two sides agreed to step up cooperation in extensive fields of
economy and trade, energy, environment, people-to-people and cultural
exchanges as well as local level exchanges, in order to deepen the
shared interests of the two countries and expand them to all areas, Xi
said.
“We should also improve and strengthen the military-to-military
relationship between the two countries and promote the building of the
new model of military relationship between the two sides,” he said.
“We should also improve coordination on macro-economic policies,
strengthen cooperation which can contribute to our respective
development, and promote strong, sustainable and balanced economic
growth in the Asia Pacific region and the world at large,” Xi said.
“I am confident in our joint efforts to build a new model of major
country relationship. I believe success depends on human efforts,” he
said.
Firstly, both sides have the political will to build the
relationship. Secondly, our cooperation in the last over 40 years
provides a good foundation for cooperation.
Thirdly, between China and the United States there are over 90
inter-governmental mechanisms which provide the institutional
underpinning for our efforts. Fourthly, there is strong public support
for this kind of relationship between China and the United States. There
are 220 pairs of sister provinces and states and cities between China
and the United States. There are nearly 190,000 Chinese students in the
United States and over 20,000 American students in China. Fifthly, there
is enormous scope for future cooperation between China and the United
States,” Xi said.
“This endeavor is unprecedented and will inspire future generations,”
he said. “We need to deepen mutual understanding, strengthen our mutual
trust, develop our cooperation and manage our differences so that we can
avoid the traditional path of inevitable confrontation between major
countries and really embark on a new path.”
“The Chinese nation and the American nation are great nations and the
Chinese people and the American people are great peoples. As long as we
stand high and look far, as long as we make specific progress and
accumulate them over time, as long as we maintain confidence and
determination, as long as we have wisdom and patience, I am confident
that we will succeed in achieving this cause,” Xi said.
Obama said he and Xi had constructive discussions on extensive
issues.
He said it is very important to understand each other’s strategic
objectives at military and political levels, adding that Washington is
taking steps to institutionalize and regularize such exchanges.
“I emphasized my firm belief to President Xi that it is very much in
the interests of the United States for China’s continuous peaceful rise
because if China is successful, that helps to drive the world economy
and puts China in a position to work with us as equal partners in
dealing with many of the global challenges that no single nation can
address by itself,” Obama said.
He said both Xi and himself recognize the unique opportunity to take
the U.S.-China relationship to a new level. The U.S. President said he
is absolutely committed to not missing this opportunity.
Responding to a question about cyber security, Xi emphasized that
China is a victim of cyber attacks and firmly supports cyber security.
Both China and the United States share the concern over cyber security.
Within the framework of the China-U.S. strategic security dialogue,
both sides agreed to set up a working group to address and continue to
discuss cyber security issues.
“By conducting good-faith cooperation, we can remove misgivings and
make information security and cyber security a positive area of
cooperation between China and the U.S.,” Xi said.
- XINHUA
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