President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, meet ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia's resort island of Bali, Nov 14, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA)
BALI — The world needs a better bilateral relationship between the United States and China and looks forward to China’s peaceful modernization amid the global economic recovery, according to analysts, as Chinese President Xi Jinping met with his US counterpart Joe Biden in Bali, Indonesia on Nov 14.
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During their meeting soon after the arrival of Xi in Bali on Monday afternoon, the Chines president said he looks forward to working together with Biden “in bringing China-US relations back to a track of healthy and stable development, ushering more benefits to our two nations and the world.”
Chines president said he looks forward to bringing China-US relations back to a track of healthy and stable development
Hong Kong legislator Edward Leung Hei said that the meeting “will allow President Biden to gain a better understanding of China, and the Chinese path to modernization, the modernization of ‘peaceful development’ ”.
As history shows, Western countries realized modernization through the path of war, colonization and plunder, and so the West is seriously concerned that the rise of China might threaten other countries’ interests, based on a zero-sum mentality. “It’s of utmost importance for the world to learn that Chinese modernization is the modernization of ‘peaceful development’,” Leung said in an interview in Bali, Indonesia.
Dedicated to peace, development, cooperation and mutual benefit, China aims to build “a human community with a shared future together with the rest of the world, but not posing any threat, to any other countries”, Leung said. “Dialogue is better than confrontation.”
President Xi also told the Biden team that the current situation in China-US relations does not fit into the fundamental interests of the two nations and their people, nor does it meet the expectations of the international community.
Xi urged the two largest economies to work with all countries to “bring more hope to world peace, greater confidence in global stability and stronger impetus to common development”.
Arsjad Rasjid, the Host of B20 Indonesia and chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said Indonesia is proud to welcome President Xi Jinping to Bali for the G20 Summit.
“As we approach the Asian Century, I believe that Indonesia, China and everyone around us will begin to see the world from a new perspective,” Rasjid said. “We will shift from a world driven by profit to a world driven by the need to create common prosperity.”
He said Xi’s success in alleviating poverty in the country will continue to inspire the world toward win-win collaborations and sustainable development, including Indonesia.
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Many B20 economic forum speakers stated that the world has to be united to bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic and overcome social economic and environmental issues together, Hong Kong lawmaker Kennedy Wong Ying-ho said.
China and the US should lead the world in these initiatives and the USA should rethink its aggressive financial, trade, technology policies against China, Wong said.
Moreover, the US should “stop stirring up cross-Taiwan Straits tension as it would be futile efforts to derail China's peaceful development which has contributed so much to the world's growth in the past decades”.