US-China ties should be seen as a long-distance race for mutual gain, security forum told
- Relationship shouldn’t be defined as a rivalry, Chinese expert says
- Tensions remain amid intensifying competition between the two powers
Rong Ying, vice-president of foreign ministry think tank the China Institute of International Studies, told a forum on Thursday that the two powers had a complex relationship that “cannot be defined by one word or one paradigm”.
“More importantly, if the relationship is about rivalry, then we naturally come to the conclusion that in the end there will be a winner and a loser,” Rong said during a panel discussion at the Global Public Security Cooperation Forum in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province.
“Then it is probably like a boxing match, where one person stands and the other gets knocked down,” he said.
“But we hope that it will be a long-distance running race, or a high jump – that is, through this kind of competition, we can achieve development together.”
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The remarks come amid intensifying competition between world’s two biggest powers on everything from trade and technology to influence in the Indo-Pacific.