Beijing: A senior Chinese official reiterated the call to the United States for strengthening dialogue and cooperation, properly settle differences, and avoid conflict and confrontation, an official statement said today.
According to the text, Yang Jiechi, director of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Communist Party, told the US National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, that this option is the best in the current global situation because it favors the interests of the two peoples and responds to the expectations of the international community.
The leader urged Washington to seek common ground, build a bridge of collaboration and seek an understanding.
He recalled that Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed last November to his American counterpart, Joe Biden, to bet on mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation as the three principles for the development of bilateral relations.
Yang expressed hope that the White House can fulfill the promises presented then by Biden, who denied pretensions of seeking a new Cold War, modifying the Chinese system or opposing it by strengthening alliances.
Regarding the Taiwan issue, he stressed that it concerns the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Asian giant while he deplored that the current US administration promised not to support independence there, but acts in the opposite way.
?The Chinese side expresses its grave concern and firm opposition to the recent erroneous remarks and actions by the US side on Taiwan-related issues,? Yang said, predicting the failure of any separatist act.
Likewise, he ratified Beijing?s position of zero tolerance for foreign interference in the affairs of Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, since they are internal.
Aside from bilateral issues, Yang and Sullivan also reviewed the situation in Ukraine, the Korean peninsula, Iran and Afghanistan.
The two officials spoke on Monday in Italy and China valued their conversation ?as frank, deep and constructive.?
He even revealed that both agreed to implement the consensus reached by Xi and Biden, increase understanding and prepare the conditions to return relations to the path of healthy and constant development.