China News Agency, Beijing, July 15. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the 7th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers' Meeting and the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting on the 14th, visited five Southeast Asian countries and presided over bilateral relations with Vietnam and Cambodia in Nanning, Guangxi. After the mechanism meeting, he was interviewed by the central media.

　　In response to the meeting between Chinese and US foreign ministers in Bali, which is highly concerned by the international community, Wang Yi said that the two sides had a long-term meeting in Bali this time, and had full and candid communication on how to improve China-US relations and properly deal with major international and regional challenges.

Both sides believed that the meeting was substantive and constructive, and it also accumulated conditions for high-level exchanges between the two countries in the next stage.

We all believe that the current Sino-US relationship is at a critical period, and it is necessary and beneficial to maintain such regular communication.

　　Wang Yi said that during the meeting, the Chinese side emphasized that there is a serious misjudgment in the US's perception of China, which has led to obvious deviations in the US's view of China, interests and competition, and the resulting China policy naturally also deviates. on the right track.

The U.S. side should not view Sino-U.S. relations only from the perspective of great power competition, nor can it handle Sino-U.S. affairs only with a zero-sum game mindset.

The US should immediately stop interfering in China's internal affairs and harming China's interests on issues related to Taiwan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the sea.

China took the initiative to issue "four lists" to the U.S., three of which are to ask the U.S. to eliminate negative factors in the relationship between the two countries, and one to explore and promote mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries, which reflects China's principled and constructive nature.

The Chinese side also proposed to explore how China and the United States can interact positively in the Asia-Pacific region and establish common rules to abide by.

The two sides also reached specific consensus on advancing joint working group discussions to address their respective concerns, facilitating the performance of duties by diplomatic and consular personnel of the two countries, and restarting exchanges and consultations on cultural issues, and agreed to cooperate in areas such as climate change and public health.

　　Wang Yi stressed that in order to get out of the predicament in China-U.S. relations, the fundamental principle is to earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, and to discuss and establish a guideline of action for both sides in the spirit of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, avoidance of confrontation, and win-win cooperation.

President Biden has repeatedly reiterated his commitment to "Four Nos, One Unintentional", and this time, Secretary of State Blinken also made a further positive statement.

The key is to keep your word and walk the talk.

The United States should eliminate the strategic anxiety of "threat expansion", abandon the habitual thinking of "you lose and I win", reject the groundless kidnapping of "political correctness", stop a series of wrong practices that undermine Sino-US relations and regional strategic stability, and work with China to be effective. To manage conflicts and differences, we must first practice peaceful coexistence in the Asia-Pacific region and achieve positive interactions.

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