China-US ties affect world peace, prosperity: Chinese scholar
16/12/2008 17:07
A Chinese academician who specializes in US affairs said in Beijing today
that China and the United States have become increasingly interdependent and the
development of bilateral relationship affects world peace and
prosperity.
today was the 30th anniversary of the signing of a joint
communique, in which China and the United States announced that they were to
resume diplomatic ties as of Jan. 1, 1979.
In a signed article in today's
People's Daily, professor Shen Dingli of Shanghai's Fudan University said China
and the United States have forged "equal, mature and stable" ties over the past
30 years.
"Thirty years of contacts have convinced the two that only through
dialogue and cooperation could they achieve win-win results," said Shen, who is
also director of the university's Center on the American Studies.
This is
also the 30th anniversary of China's economic reforms, which have turned the
once poverty-stricken country into one of the world's largest economies.
Shen
said China's economic growth benefited from other countries' cooperation,
including that of the United States.
"The US side has responded positively to
China's reforms and opening-up policies," he said.
Shen said as bilateral
ties deepened, the United States has found that it needed China's cooperation to
fight terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and
maintain stability in the Asia-Pacific region.
The United States also has
great expectations of the growing Chinese market and sees China's economic
restructuring as providing great business opportunities, he said.
The
professor said the world had changed significantly from the Cold War, when the
world was locked in the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet
Union.
"Now the United States is still outstanding in power, but some newly
emerging countries have begun to play increasingly important roles," Shen said.
He added that with the changes, China and and the United States have shown more
respect and concern for each other's core interests.
Shen said China and the
United States still have many differences. But he believed "the two governments
will manage relations efficiently and will not let any individual issue block
the stable development of their ties."
He said differences in social systems
and ideology had formerly seriously damaged relations between China and the
United States. Given the changing world situation, "how the two countries should
get on with each other is still a key task facing the two governments in the
long run," he said.
The United States is China's second-largest trading
partner, with bilateral trade of US$302.08 billion in 2007.
Xinhua
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