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Liu Zhen

China and the United States have more common interests than differences and should work together rather than seek confrontation, Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan said on Friday.
Speaking to US business leaders and former officials at a videoconference – the first high profile meeting between the two sides since Joe Biden’s inauguration as US president – Wang appealed for greater cooperation and fewer clashes.
“Upholding the spirit of non-conflict and non-confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation, focusing on cooperation and managing differences are the keys to promoting the healthy and stable development of Sino-US relations,” he was quoted as saying by China Radio International.
The relationship between China and the United States mattered to global prosperity and stability, he said.

Wang stressed the fact that the trade and economic relationship between what are now the world’s two largest economies had for the past four decades, since the establishment of formal diplomatic relations in 1979, been complementary and mutually beneficial.
“Although there have been low tides of friction, conflict, contradictions and differences, we also have enjoyed the profits of moving closer, which proves that China and the United States have more common interests than differences,” he said.
US, China should be competitors not rivals, Beijing’s envoy to Washington says
The American representatives at the conference said the US and China should look for every opportunity to cooperate, and that the business community would continue to push Washington to strengthen dialogue and exchanges with Beijing, Chinese state media reported.
China’s leaders must wait and see what foreign policy stance Biden adopts but have said they are willing to work with the new administration to reset ties after clashing on everything from trade and technology to Hong Kong and the South China Sea during Donald Trump’s tenure.


Also on Friday, Borge Brende, the president of the World Economic Forum, said senior US officials might hold meetings with their Chinese counterparts at the group’s next summit in Singapore in May.
The event was relocated away from its traditional home of Davos in Switzerland over concerns about the spread of Covid-19 in Europe.
“Traditionally, Singapore has had very close ties with the US but also worked very well with China,” Brende said in a virtual discussion with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
“And maybe at the Singapore meeting, the special annual meeting, could be a place where you could see the new Biden administration and China meet.”
Merkel backs Xi on need to avoid new cold war, but presses China on human rights, transparency
Biden and his cabinet members have already been in contact with senior officials across Europe and Asia to renew allegiances and pledge cooperation in countering China, but have yet to speak to leaders in Beijing.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday promised to support the Philippines in the event of it coming under armed attack in the South China Sea.
China’s vice-minister of foreign affairs, Le Yucheng, on Thursday urged Washington to take immediate action to repair its relationship with Beijing, while China’s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, said it would be a grave mistake for the United States to treat China as a strategic rival.
Additional reporting by Reuters


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‘Upholding the spirit of non-conflict and non-confrontation … key to promoting the healthy and stable development of Sino-US relations,’ Chinese vice-president says
Relationship between world’s two largest economies matters to global prosperity and stability, he says



‘Upholding the spirit of non-conflict and non-confrontation … key to promoting the healthy and stable development of Sino-US relations,’ Chinese vice-president says.


US-China relations: common interests outweigh differences, Wang Qishan says

‘Upholding the spirit of non-conflict and non-confrontation … key to promoting the healthy and stable development of Sino-US relations,’ Chinese vice-president says Relationship between world’s two largest economies matters to global prosperity and stability, he says

‘Upholding the spirit of non-conflict and non-confrontation … key to promoting the healthy and stable development of Sino-US relations,’ Chinese vice-president says

Relationship between world’s two largest economies matters to global prosperity and stability, he says