China News Agency, Beijing, May 31 (Huang Yuqin and Xie Yanbing) The seminar on "Kissinger and Sino-US Relations" was held by video on May 31.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who just celebrated his 99th birthday, attended the meeting online and expressed his views on the current Sino-US relations.
He pointed out that as major powers, China and the United States need to establish principles of coexistence, find ways to coexist, and jointly avoid confrontation.
Kissinger said that in the past few decades, China-US relations have been developing in a constructive direction, but now there are many differences between the two sides and the situation is quite tense.
Both China and the United States are aware that in the past few decades, both China and the United States have shouldered great responsibilities. Compared with 50 years ago, both sides have greater responsibilities now.
Kissinger said that the world has undergone unprecedented changes, and the development of science and technology has made the relationship between major powers more complicated, especially those with high technology.
In this context, as a major country, it is necessary to establish the principle of coexistence.
China and the United States have different historical backgrounds. China has a history of thousands of years, and China's government governance and foreign policy are also based on thousands of years.
America is relatively young, and policy is based on pragmatism.
In this case, the two countries must find a way to coexist and jointly avoid confrontation, which may lead to conflict or even military conflict, which needs to be avoided in order to build a better world.
Kissinger said that China and the United States should work together to start dialogue, through dialogue to fully understand each other's core interests, and respect each other's concerns.
Taking the Taiwan issue as an example, he pointed out that the first issue that President Nixon discussed with Chairman Mao Zedong during his visit to China was the Taiwan issue.
At that time, the two sides reached a tacit understanding that the United States recognized the one-China principle, and China also understood the US's concerns about how to implement the one-China principle.
This logic should still be incorporated into the framework of Sino-US relations.
Kissinger pointed out that the two sides should jointly maintain the framework established in the past.
Apart from the Taiwan issue, many issues in the world should be handled in this way.
For example, the advancement of technology has made the military capabilities of all parties have unprecedented development and progress, and the threat to each is not of the same order of magnitude as in the past.
How to effectively manage and control technology and how to avoid the destructive effects that may be brought about by normal development are all issues worth thinking about.
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