On March 27, President Xi Jinping met with representatives of the U.S. business community and strategic academia at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
Straight News: President Xi Jinping met with representatives of the U.S. business community and strategic academic circles today, what do you interpret from this?
Special Commentator Chen Bing: President Xi's meeting with representatives of the US business and academic circles today is to reaffirm that China-US relations are one of the most important bilateral relations in the world, and that they have a bearing on the well-being of the two peoples and the future and destiny of mankind. As long as there is mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, China-US relations will improve.
Second, he made a reasonable and well-founded response to the West's "two theories" on China. He said that China's development has gone through all kinds of difficulties and challenges, and it did not collapse because of the "theory of China's collapse" in the past, and it will not collapse because of the "theory of China's collapse" now. Last year, China's economic growth rate ranked among the world's major economies, and its contribution to world economic growth continued to exceed 30%, which was done by the Chinese people, so China has the confidence and confidence to make greater contributions to the sustainable development of the world. This is a very important response, especially to the "China summit theory". It not only gives the world a "reassurance", but also brings solid confidence to the Chinese people in deepening reform and expanding opening up.
Third, it has given specific guidance on China-US cooperation and made tangible achievements in the changes since the China-US summit in San Francisco, such as maintaining communication and making progress in various fields such as politics and diplomacy, economy, trade and finance, law enforcement and anti-narcotics, climate change, and people-to-people exchanges. The common interests of China and the United States have not decreased, but have increased. Whether it is traditional fields such as economy and trade, agriculture or emerging fields such as climate change and artificial intelligence, China and the United States should be a boost to each other's development, coordinate and cooperate, and play the role of major countries. Fourth, we have extended an invitation to the United States and the world, hoping for mutual respect, mutual benefit, consultation on an equal footing, acting in accordance with economic laws and market rules, expanding and deepening mutually beneficial economic and trade cooperation, and pursuing win-win cooperation. President Xi's "Three Chinas" is particularly inspiring, that is, "invest in China, deepen China, and win in China", announcing to the world that China's sustainable development is not only a major event for China, but also a good thing for the world. A strong and prosperous China is the positive energy of the world.
On the evening of March 21, well-known Singaporean scholar and veteran diplomat Keith Ma had a heated discussion with American scholar Xia Wei on China-US relations and world order at the Asia Society in New York.
Straight News: Recently, the debate between Singaporean scholar Ma Kaishuo and American scholars on China has attracted global attention, especially the-for-tat confrontation with "wolf warrior diplomacy".
Special Commentator Chen Bing: Mr. Ma Kaishuo is a well-known scholar and veteran diplomat in Singapore, and he is very well aware of the various narrative methods under "Western-centrism". In the old Chinese saying, "only the governor is allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps."
Therefore, when China develops into the world's second largest economy, with a total GDP of about 70% of the United States, the United States is not happy, as if the United States should be a "city on a hill" and should not be surpassed by other countries. As a result, two kinds of cognitive warfare were fought, one is the China threat theory, which is the so-called "wolf warrior theory", which portrays China as "conceited and strong", and regards China as the primary competitor, which should be suppressed and opposed.
The second is the "theory of China's collapse" and "the theory of peaking", saying that China will go downhill from now on, that its economic development has peaked, and that it will never surpass the United States. We can see that the threat theory and the summit theory are a kind of "schizophrenia", which is the insanity of the Anglo-Saxon hegemonic thinking, so Mr. Ma Shuokai pointed out that the West should accept the reality of China's rejuvenation as a great power, and should not condescendingly judge other countries.
China's strategy is very clear, that is, all countries get along with each other on an equal footing, cooperate for win-win results, and build a community with a shared future for mankind. It is better to cooperate with China and the United States to manage differences and focus on the really important issues facing humanity in the future. Mr. Ma Shuokai has a better understanding of China's national development goals, not for hegemony, but for hello, hello, hello China does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, and hopes that other countries will not interfere in China's internal affairs, and China's path is chosen by the Chinese themselves, and should not be distorted and smeared by the Western system.
Author丨Chen Bing, special commentator of Shenzhen Satellite TV's "Live Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan".
Editor丨Yang Ying, Editor-in-Chief of Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News