China News Agency, Beijing, March 20 (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) Fifty years ago, Sino-US relations had not yet broken the ice.

Kissinger, then the assistant to the US president for national security affairs, quietly got out of the plane to Beijing on the grounds of "sudden stomachache" when he visited Pakistan.

The secret meeting between China and the United States, which affects the two countries and the world, opened the curtain.

　　Fifty years later, Sino-US relations have reached an important juncture again.

On the 20th, think tanks who participated in the 2021 China Development Forum held that the biggest inspiration from history is that the two countries have no reason to confront each other, and that managing differences and pragmatic cooperation are the only options.

　　Fu Ying, the former Vice Minister of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at the forum that China and the United States were in a state of hostile relations 50 years ago. The two countries have been isolated and opposed for a long time, and they did not understand each other at all.

Even under these circumstances, the two countries recognized important common interests, successfully surpassed their differences, and achieved the "ice-breaking" of bilateral relations.

"Today, no matter how great the differences between China and the United States are, it cannot be compared with 50 years ago."

　　In her view, compared with the past, there are now more favorable conditions for improving Sino-US relations.

Fifty years ago, under the circumstances of huge differences and differences between each other, the two countries were able to overcome numerous obstacles and finally meet and negotiate and achieve cooperation on major international strategic issues. Now there is no reason to move towards conflict and confrontation.

　　Fu Ying said that China and the United States are now deeply interdependent.

The practice of the past few years has also proved that "total decoupling" is not in the fundamental interests of both parties.

The two countries should shoulder their historical responsibilities and face and resolve their differences calmly and objectively.

　　Former US Secretary of State Kissinger also stated in his video speech that the two societies of the United States and China have different cultures and different histories, so sometimes they have different views on certain things.

However, modern technology, global communication and global economy require both parties to make greater efforts to cooperate than ever before, because world peace and prosperity depend on the understanding between the two societies.

　　As for how to cooperate, the participants thought that there are two key words: first, pragmatic; second, constructive.

　　Zhang Baijia, the former deputy director of the Party History Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said that it was the realistic attitude that both China and the United States upheld that enabled the continuous development of bilateral relations, and this attitude is also needed today.

　　"U.S.-China relations in the 21st century should be constructive." Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin confessed in a video speech. Now it seems that there are more and more problems between the two countries and they do not trust each other, which is not good for both sides.

As the two largest economies in the world, the United States and China should conduct bilateral and multilateral cooperation from the perspective of each other's interests, so as to solve the problems that affect the relationship between the two countries.

　　He said that it should be realized that the competition between the United States and China is inevitable, but the competition itself is not a problem. In fact, it will bring benefits to ensure that the two sides can cooperate in a fair, just, and constructive manner.

The United States and China do have differences on some issues, but both sides must constructively resolve these issues.

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