President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in next month, and in response to his four priorities, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said today that there is room for cooperation between China and the United States on three issues: epidemic prevention, climate and the economy.
But many U.S. critics are shaping a McCarthyist atmosphere that ignores the common interests of both countries.
Referring to the hard-line hawkish approach of current U.S. President Donald Trump, Wang said he hopes that China and the United States can resume dialogue and build mutual trust after Biden is sworn in on Jan. 20 next year, AFP reported.
In a video message to the Asia Society, a New York-based think tank, Wang said, “The most important thing is that the U.S. policy toward China should return to objectivity and rationality as soon as possible.
Wang said there is “room for cooperation” between the U.S. and China on three of Biden’s four priorities – 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) prevention, economic recovery, climate change, and ethnic affirmative action.
On the epidemic, Wang said the U.S. and China can cooperate to manufacture vaccines and assist other countries.
The Trump administration sees decades of U.S. engagement with China as a failure, accusing China of stealing intellectual property, engaging in mass espionage, and using infrastructure to coerce other countries. In recent months, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has ended Chinese-funded exchange programs and tightened visa rules for Chinese students, Communist Party members and their families, implicating hundreds of millions of people.
We have seen a resurgence of McCarthyism, which undermines international exchange in general,” Wang said. McCarthyism refers to the witch hunt against the Communist Party within the U.S. government after World War II, led by Republican Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Calif.).
Without directly naming him, Wang accused some senior U.S. officials of “irresponsible presumptions of guilt and emotional outbursts against China,” saying those who ignore the vast common interests and room for cooperation between the two countries and insist that China is the main threat.
“It’s like not aligning the buttons on a dress, they were wrong from the start.
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