Today, humanity is facing unprecedented challenges, and major power rivalry should not be the underlying logic of this era, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a meeting with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Lima, Peru.
"Humanity is faced with unprecedented challenges in this turbulent world suffering from frequent conflicts. Major-country competition should not be the underlying logic of the times; only solidarity and cooperation can help humanity overcome current difficulties," Xi Jinping said, as quoted by China Central Television.
If China and the United States view each other as enemies, their relations will regress, the Chinese leader said.
"When the two countries treat each other as partners and seek common ground while shelving differences, their relationship will make considerable progress," Xi noted.
Neither China nor the United States, as two major countries, should try to reshape the other at will, suppress the other from the so-called "position of strength," or deprive the other of its legitimate right to development in order to maintain its leading status, the Chinese president stressed.