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Peace benefits both sides
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THE Sino-US relationship is at a sensitive and complicated phase. In the more than four months since the new US Government assumed office, its words and deeds on questions such as the plane collision incident, and the Taiwan and the Tibetan issues have caused serious harm to Sino-US relations. Where does the USA want to lead Sino-US relations?
Philosophical warning: Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you
Recently, some US Government officials have successively published their views about Sino-US relations, in which they stressed that Sino-US relations should be "based first and foremost on the national interest of the USA".
However, the USA seems to have not properly positioned its own "national interest", but have expanded it willfully, and extended it to all corners of the world, and have given it the explanations of a "what I take and seek" type.
It is based on this idea that the USA explained its spy flight over China's surrounding areas as an action conforming to US "national interest". Again it was based on this idea that the USA has intensified its implementation of its plan for the missile defense system under the pretext that the missiles of so-called "rogue countries" constitute a threat to US interest, and disregarded what consequences it would possibly bring to world security.
So-called US "national interest" is also directly reflected in its approach toward the question of China's Taiwan. Obviously, the decision of the US government to sell large amounts of advanced weapons to Taiwan is the idea of priority given to US "national interest".
People cannot but ask: When the USA talks about its own national interest, should it also consider and respect the interests of other countries, and should not pursue its own absolute security at the expense the interests of other countries?
It is not difficult to see that what the USA calls the defence of "national interest" is, in essence, wanting other countries to submissively obey the private gain of a handful of Americans practicing hegemonism.
Call of reality: abandon confrontation and seek cooperation
How to properly handle Sino-US relations and make a wise choice is a common topic confronting the two great nations of China and the USA. On some global issues, the common interests of China and the USA have not decreased, but have increased; the area of cooperation between the two countries has not shrunk, but has expanded.
US noted politician Zhlgnieh Brzezinski said that for the USA to establish friendly, cooperative ties with China has everything to gain and nothing to lose, because China plays a role in stabilizing the political situation in the Far East, and has common strategic interests with the USA.
Mutual economic complementarity is an important component of Sino-US relationship. The fast developing Sino-US economic and trade relations have become the main stabilizing factor and driving force of bilateral ties. China and the USA have reached a bilateral agreement on the question regarding China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), this has injected fresh vigour into the improvement and development of Sino-US relations.
The US strategy of pursuing a single-polar "leadership of the world" is bound to collide with the objective trend of the world's multi-polarization. Listen to the appeal of George Kennan: It can be said without hesitation that this planet will absolutely not be ruled by one single political centre, no matter how large its military strength is.
The development of world multi-polarization and economic globalization trend has deepened the interdependence among various countries. Peace benefits, undermining peace hurts, the two sides.
Historical revelation: hegemony short-lived and justice evergreen
Because of its relative economic, military and scientific and technological advantages, the USA has further grown a mindset of hegemonism after the Cold War. It often exhibits a unique arrogant and overbearing manner, clings obstinately to its own course and attempts to lord it over various countries and even the international organization. Regarding any rule, treaty and agreement, the USA wants that it alone has the final say.
Hegemonism has encountered boycott and opposition from more and more countries. According to an article published in Los Angeles Times on May 8, trouble has appeared in the relations between the USA and many countries, in some important struggles, the Americans often find themselves in a passive and besieged position and even suffer final defeat. Recently, the USA failed in the election in the UN Human Right Commission and the UN International Narcotics Control Board, is this still not enough to set Americans thinking?
History has proved and will continue to prove one truth: hegemony short lived; justice evergreen.(People's Daily)
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