(Two Sessions Express) Zhang Yesui talks about Sino-US relations: Taking China as a strategic competitor will only destroy Sino-US mutual trust and cooperation

  China News Agency, Beijing, March 4 (Reporter Li Jingze) The US Congress recently passed the "US Competition Act", and is currently planning to pass the "US Chip Act". Regarding the impact of such legislation on US-China relations, the 13th National Congress of Zhang Yesui, spokesman for the Fifth Session of the National People's Congress, said in Beijing on the 4th that it is up to the United States to improve its competitiveness. Using China's development as an excuse to use China as a strategic competitor will only undermine the mutual trust and cooperation between China and the United States. It will certainly harm the self-interest of the United States.

  On the same day, the fifth session of the 13th National People's Congress held a press conference in the press conference hall of the Great Hall of the People. The spokesperson of the conference answered questions from Chinese and foreign reporters on the agenda of the conference and the work of the National People's Congress.

  Zhang Yesui said that in November last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping held a video meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, and had full and in-depth communication and exchanges on the strategic, overall and fundamental issues of the development of China-U.S. relations, as well as important issues of common concern.

  Zhang Yesui stressed that China's policy towards the US is consistent and clear.

A stable China-US relationship is not only conducive to the development of China and the United States, but also conducive to maintaining a peaceful and stable international environment, and is conducive to effectively addressing global challenges such as climate change and the new crown virus epidemic.

Mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation should be the correct way for China and the US to get along in the new era.

  He pointed out that the key to peaceful coexistence is mutual respect, including respecting the political system and development path chosen by each other, respecting each other's core interests and major concerns, and respecting the basic norms of international relations such as non-interference in internal affairs.

Win-win cooperation is in the fundamental interests of the two countries and the two peoples, and is also the expectation of the international community.

  Zhang Yesui emphasized that how the United States can improve its own competitiveness, including chip research and development and manufacturing capabilities, is the United States' own business.

However, using China's development as an excuse to treat China as a strategic competitor will only undermine the mutual trust and cooperation between China and the United States, and will certainly harm the self-interest of the United States.

  "Drawing ideological lines, pulling 'small circles' and engaging in group confrontation are all contrary to the development trend of the times and are not feasible at all," the spokesman said.

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