China Ready To Improve Ties With US 'At All Levels': VP
By AFP - Agence France PresseNovember 8, 2023
China is ready to hold talks with the United States at "all levels", Beijing's vice president said Wednesday ahead of an expected summit in San Francisco between leaders Xi Jinping and Joe Biden next week.
Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng said recent high-level meetings between Beijing and Washington were sending "positive signals" that relations were improving.
"We're ready to strengthen communication and dialogue with the United States at all levels, advance mutually beneficial cooperation, properly manage differences and jointly address global challenges," Han said.
Relations between Washington and Beijing sunk to some of their deepest lows in recent years over a host of issues including export controls, human rights and national security.
But both sides appear willing to patch things up, with Washington sending a number of top officials to Beijing this year in a bid to strengthen communications.
US President Biden has said he expects to meet Chinese leader Xi on the sidelines of a summit in San Francisco next week for "constructive" talks.
While Beijing is yet to confirm the meeting, Han on Wednesday reiterated Xi's opinion that the question of US-China ties "bears on the future of humanity".
"The world is big enough for the two countries to develop themselves and prosper together," he said.
Two ways of possibly looking at this.One is that the CCP are fools. Two is that the CCP likes the way things are going at the moment.
Currently, China does more trade with the Global South, than with Europe, America, and Japan, combined. Since growth rates are higher in China and higher in the Global South, well, we can figure out what is the future for the next couple of decades. That is the so-called trade war. The so-called tech war, Huawei is still here, and the Chinese IC industry is booming.
Bottom line, things are too far gone, to expect these two developments mentioned above to reverse themselves. There is a real permanence to the relationship between China and the Global South which will keep on expanding, and the momentum of the Chinese tech industry will roll onward and upwards.
Talking, or not talking, to the Americans won't change any of this, it won't change crap.
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