Ambassador Cui Tiankai accepted an exclusive interview with Bai Yansong: "The most important thing for the United States to recover is to look like a big country"

　　On January 20th, local time, Biden became President of the United States.

Can Sino-US relations return to normal after Biden takes office?

Will the Sino-US trade war continue?

Can international students in the United States benefit?

The first issue of Bai Yansong's new media live program "White Questions" talked with the Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai and talked about the direction of Sino-US relations.

I think the most important thing for the United States to recover is that a big country should look like a big country. A big country needs its wisdom, its self-confidence, its optimism, and its diligence.

Q: The White House spokesperson said that Biden will use "patient" to face China. What do you think?

　　In this regard, Cui Tiankai said that patience is of course a good thing. I hope that the United States can review and reflect on its China policy in recent years, find the crux of the problem, and indeed adopt a positive, constructive, forward-looking, and in line with the world today. The actual China policy.

　　Cui Tiankai believes that

patience is not enough, but rationality and sincerity are needed.

"The White House spokesperson basically defines Sino-US relations as strategic competitive relations, and some views on China's domestic and foreign policies are not so accurate." Cui Tiankai hopes that the United States can use patience to understand China, the world today, and Sino-US relations objectively.

Q: No matter who is the president of the United States, Sino-US relations will not get better?

　　Cui Tiankai believes that if China and the United States want to develop a healthy and stable relationship, it is necessary to clearly answer a fundamental question: whether two countries with very different historical cultures and social systems can and should live in peace, focus on cooperation, manage differences, and truly It will benefit the people of the two countries and the international community. For the United States, it is a fundamental question whether it can accept the development of China, a country very different from it, and whether it can respect the right of the Chinese people to pursue a better life.

Whoever becomes president must answer this fundamental question

. If there is a clear, unambiguous and positive

answer to this fundamental question

, solutions can be found to specific problems in the relations between the two countries.

Q: Can I still study in the United States?

　　Cui Tiankai believes that where to study abroad, students and parents should make trade-offs and choices based on their needs and objective conditions.

The technology and education level of the United States is still leading in the world, and there are still many places in the United States to learn from.

　　Cui Tiankai believes that the United States will become one of the destinations for studying abroad. "Our attitude should be neither blind worship nor blind rejection. No matter where we study abroad, our

goal is to be a better self, not to become someone else. .

"

　　△On July 22, 2020 local time, the US State Department stated in a statement that it requested the Chinese Consulate in Houston to be closed before 4 pm on July 24, 2020.

The picture shows that on the evening of August 17, 2020, all the staff of the Consulate General in Houston arrived in Beijing by chartered flight. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a brief and solemn welcome ceremony at the Capital Airport.

Q: Will the Chinese Consulate in Houston resume?

What about the American station in Chengdu?

　　Cui Tiankai said that the

person who needs to tie the bell is needed to untie the bell, and the US should show goodwill

. Now that the Biden administration has just taken office, the two sides have not yet started discussing this issue.

　　Regarding when China will resume the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu, Cui Tiankai said that the closing of the consulate general between China and the United States is not what China has to do, nor is it the first one for China to do.

"Whoever does it first should take corrective action? ?"

Q: Will the Sino-US trade war continue?

　　Cui Tiankai said that China has always opposed the so-called trade war.

"If someone has to impose a trade war on us, we are not afraid and can stay with us to the end."

　　Business people in the United States generally hope that the relationship between the two countries will be back on track as soon as possible, so as to provide a normal and favorable business environment for both companies.

China has been actively making efforts for the normal economic and trade relations between the two sides. "Despite the tariff war and trade war imposed on us by the United States, despite the impact of the epidemic, our reform and opening up has never stopped, and our business environment is constantly improving. There is also fairness in American business circles."

Q: Are China-US relations at their lowest point?

Could it be lower?

　　In this regard, Cui Tiankai believes that it depends entirely on the policy choices made by both parties. If one party must make the wrong choice and move towards confrontation, the situation will be worse than it is now.

"But we should work for the better."

　　The change in Sino-US relations is absolute, and the constant is relative. The key is to change in which direction. It depends on whether the two sides can meet each other halfway. Whether they can reach a certain consensus on the strategic framework of Sino-US relations depends on the new US government. What kind of policy.

　　Cui Tiankai said that from a long-term historical perspective,

there is only "cooperation" between China

and the

United States as the only correct choice

. As long as both sides can make such a choice, unswervingly overcome difficulties, and work in this direction, Sino-US relations should Can usher in a bright future.