China News Agency, Houston, June 3 (Reporter Sha Hanting) Qin Gang, Chinese Ambassador to the United States, said in Houston on the 2nd local time that Sino-US relations are at a critical juncture, and hope that China and the United States will work together to promote the early return of bilateral relations. The right track for healthy and stable development.

  On the same day, Qin Gang delivered a speech at the Texas branch of the Asia Society, saying that China-US relations are one of the most important bilateral relations in the world today and are facing unprecedented complex and severe challenges.

The two countries are in the process of a new round of mutual discovery, recognition and adjustment.

This is not only about the well-being of the 1.7 billion people of the two countries, but also about world peace and prosperity.

  Qin Gang said that the core essence of US Secretary of State Blinken's China policy speech last week is that the US should concentrate all its efforts to conduct a comprehensive and fierce strategic competition with China.

Blinken's speech exposed the US's serious misunderstanding and misjudgment of the times and China, and highlighted the differences between China and the US on some major issues.

  Qin Gang pointed out that with the development of globalization and science and technology, the world has become a community with a shared future where interests are intertwined and we share weal and woe.

There should be no more hot wars in today's world, no return to cold wars, and no place for hegemonism, bloc politics and Cold War mentality.

  Qin Gang said that the purpose of China's development is to "establish itself and achieve excellence", rather than aiming to surpass, replace, and win.

There will indeed be competition between China and the United States in some areas, but it should be a fair and healthy competition. The purpose of competition is to promote each other and make each other better, faster and stronger, rather than a zero-sum game where the winner takes all.

  Qin Gang said that China welcomes and wishes the U.S. success for the U.S. statement to increase investment in its own development and improve its own competitiveness.

At the same time, China hopes that the US will not take containment and suppression of other countries as its own development goal, which will only lead its own development astray.

  Qin Gang emphasized that "mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation" is the correct way for China and the United States to get along.

He visited many cities and cities in the United States, and what he saw was the tangible benefits that China-US cooperation has brought to the people of the two countries, and what he heard was the voices of all walks of life in the United States wishing for the healthy development of China-US relations.

He hoped that policymakers in Washington would also listen to and conform to the public opinion and will of the two countries.

  Regarding the Taiwan issue, Qin Gang said that the Taiwan issue is the "most important, sensitive and fundamental" issue in Sino-US relations, and the one-China principle is the cornerstone of Sino-US relations. commitments, rather than constantly hollowing out the one-China principle.

  Qin Gang pointed out that China-US relations are at a critical juncture, and both sides need to make the right choice together as to where to go.

Qin Gang hoped that China and the United States would make joint efforts to push bilateral relations back to the right track of healthy and stable development at an early date.

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