Jul 31, 2021, 10:20
The newly appointed Chinese Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang made a brief address on the state of China-US relations after his arrival in Washington on Wednesday evening. His speech sought to strike an optimistic tone in contrast to the fiery exchanges of the last few days, and urged Washington, D.C. to take a pragmatic and optimistic view of its ties with Beijing, and not to void the historical progress made in the relations between the two countries over the past 50 years, stating both countries are finding a way to "get along with each other in the new era."
"I believe that the door of China-US relations, which is already open, cannot be closed. This is the trend of the world, the call of the times, and the will of the people," Qin said, indicating China's openness to dialogue with the United States.
The new ambassador first spoke of the legacy of Henry Kissinger – a starting point in the history of modern relations between the two countries. Prior to the late 1970s, relations between the two countries were non-existent, isolated and estranged in the tensions of the Cold War. There were no economic ties between the two countries, no human exchanges, nothing. Yet through the decisions pioneered by Kissinger and Richard Nixon, the two countries have forged a comprehensive, modern and globally spanning relationship.
There are some people today in Washington D.C. who say this is a mistake. These elites want to turn back the clock and sledgehammer a relationship that is decisive in combating the challenges of the modern era, as if the rise of China should never have happened. As Qin states, that relationship is now at a "critical turning point" and "where this important relationship will be headed is vital for the well-being of the Chinese and American peoples and for the future of the world. The two peoples and the international community hope for a sound, stable and growing relationship between the two countries."
The United States and China may have differences and may have many points of disagreement, but both countries must commit themselves to the founding principles, the foundation of what matters the most. Geopolitical crusades, a desire for hegemony and pursuit of ideology cannot annul the importance of robust, stable and mature diplomacy. The two countries must work together and find a way forwards as opposed to pursuing dangerous, mutually destructive and impulsive antagonism.
This is not about whose political system is superior or ought to "win" in the end. This is about a practical rendition of how two countries ought to engage with each other in respect for the common interests of the world. There cannot be a new Cold War, which would be a disaster for the mankind.
Qin does not wish malice to the United States, but asks America to be mature, rational and sensible in its approach to China. America has visibly struggled with a crisis of its own identity as China is developing rapidly, but it must learn to come to terms with this and live with it pragmatically than to pursue conflict and a zero-sum arrangement that it must "dominate" at all costs.
China is not seeking to displace the US, but is prepared to accept America for what it is, to pursue a path of peaceful co-existence and to work with America in shaping a global future. We thus ask, is Washington prepared to envision a world that does not involve a caricature of "threats"? And is it prepared to accept that America has lived and thrived in a world where it was not always the sole power, and can do so again?
The new ambassador has extended his best wishes to the United States. It is now time for Washington to make the wise decisions, the right decisions and the prudent decisions. It is easy to hype mass hysteria, but things cannot move forwards until the US appreciates the world as it is, rather than what dominated by US rules. On 50 years of engagement, progress and integration, there is no rolling back the clock, and US-China relations must ultimately stay on the trajectory that has brought great benefit to both countries. But is the US prepared to work with us, rather than treat us mindlessly as an imagined enemy? (Source: CGTN)
US promises peace but creates war without any valid reasons so that it could just use the place for live testing its own military hardware to consolidate its position as world tyrant but the world bends according to its demands or face destruction with heavy price and huge lost of innocent lives!
THAT IS, 'IN GOD WE TRUST'!
Breaking even the sparsest protocol of cultured courtesy, no one from the US state department received him when he landed on US soil. That cheap slight is unbecoming of the US.
Having been moulded to despise anything China, many of its citizens will however not be taking exception to that petulance because to do would be to admit they have all been taken for a ride by their own political leaders in order to shore their own political fortunes so as to avert the attention of the US masses from the mess in their own midst.
They need someone as fall guy to take blame for all the problems of their own creation and omission. China and the Chinese have always been the favorite candidate for their target practice because the US policymakers remain suprem(r)acists in nature on fear they may start doubting their own capabilities and thus lose their electorate. Standing only in their own shadows, they obsessively see dangers wherever light casts.
Trump targeted China in order to rally his rustbelt voters and rightwing supporters. Biden targets China in order to rally his woke voters and leftwing supporters.
Both US opposing political camps share the same bipartisan stance on China - that she is an enemy of the US, its existential threat and the most consequential nation it faces.
Since China doesn't harbour anything remotely likewise about the US, perhaps both should be equally wrong.
Hegemon to the core, the US leaders thought that where they had succeeded in dismantling the USSR geopolitically and subjugating Japan industrially, they could do the same to China.
Now after the dust is settling from their action of literally throwing their brobdingnagian fridge at China, the world has woken up to what they have been trying to do all along - making accusatory lies to smear China but ending up only exposing their own malicious intent, whilst trying to gang others towards their campaign so that they could remain on top of everyone else including their own allies.
China has already listed her grievances to the US. The ball is now on the US court. It can pick up and be man enough to admit its approach towards China has been totally unproductive and destructive, then work with China on equal and trustworthy footings that will pave the way for everyone, including its allies, to work one with the other to rebuild this fractured world.
What else is there? Chillingly compete to reinvent wheels, waste scarce resources, look over slacking shoulders when the planet is boiling to a cinder?
After all, when the US says in a serious tone it wants to cooperate where it serves its interest but compete all else, it shows it only selfishly respects its own viewpoints and worth without regard for the contributions by others.
When the world has become intertwined and interconnected, this belligerent recalcitrance is an anachronistic absurdity for a supposedly global player.
Kudos to the new Ambassador for his brave, sincere and eloquent maiden speech made on arrival in a hostile land; hopefully it won't become a swansong in the end for the relations between both nations. Unless its ego still gets in the way, the US should rise to some level of real culture and wisdom in response.
Hitler sued for peace three times but was repeatedly rejected by war criminal, Winston Turdhill. Russia offered them peace but they reneged and were only interested in plundering Russia.
What that means is you can NEVER trust them. You can NEVER have peace with them. They're like the Christopher Lloyd klingon in "The Search For Spok". Even when Cap'n Kirk offers his hand the klingon tries to pull him over the cliff, so Kirk kicks him off. In other words, it's a mistake to think they have your values. They're alien.
So if a natural disaster were to occur threatening to wipe them out, why would you lift a finger? If you had a button to wipe them out (as Russia and China have), why WOULDN'T you press it?
With US hell-bent on finding fault with China, often based on unsubstantiated claims, such as 'genocide' and 'forced labor' in Xinjiang, and interferring in China's internal affairs, re Hong Kong and Taiwan, Qin Gang has a tough job ahead of him!
I wish him success in his new assignment; he needs lots of moral support!
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