US-China relations look slightly more positive this year than last, says former veteran newspaper editor Han Fook Kwang.
An outdoor screen in Beijing shows a news programme about Chinese President Xi Jinping meeting US President Joe Biden during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ week in California on Nov 16, 2023. SINGAPORE: United States President Joe Biden met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in San Francisco in November, the first American trip by the Chinese leader since 2017.
Other issues have recently cropped up, the latest being the complaints by the European Union and the US suggesting that China is dumping its green energy products such asThe Chinese might be forgiven for wondering what the fuss was about when the world is facing a climate crisis and trying to wean itself off fossil fuel.I had a taste of this as an observer in an annual meeting between scholars and analysts from the two countries held here last week, with Singapore as interlocutor.
One American participant noted that the two sides were at loggerheads in so many areas, it could only be described as a cold war, but with a small"c" and"w", suggesting that they are some distance away from the level of tension seen during the Cold War of the last century, when differences between the West and the Soviet Union were irreconcilable and there was always a danger of the rivalry erupting into a nuclear conflict.
It is no longer only about improving the livelihood of the Chinese people which, of course, remains centre stage, but it is also about making the world more secure.As with the American side, there was also a hint of fatalism about this new order when a Chinese participant made the somewhat startling but, perhaps, entirely realistic declaration, that trust was not a critical factor as both sides try to manage their relations.
Accept that the mistrust will be around for a long time and see what can be achieved in the meantime.
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