Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with a U.S. congressional delegation led by Adam Smith in Beijing on Sunday, calling on the U.S. Congress to view China and bilateral relations in a correct way, actively facilitate exchanges and cooperation, and play a constructive role in fostering China-U.S. friendship and common development.
Noting China and the United States are both major countries with significant influence in the world, Li said a steady, sound and sustainable development of China-U.S. relationship serves the common interests of the two countries and is what the international community expects.
Since the beginning of this year, President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump have had several phone talks, and they both agreed that China and the United States should strengthen dialogue and cooperation, providing strategic guidance for the development of China-U.S. relations in the next stage, Li said.
The premier said China stands ready to work with the United States on the basis of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation. He expressed the hope that the United States will work with China in the same direction to jointly promote the development of bilateral relations along the right track to the benefit of both countries and the world at large.
Li pointed out that China and the United States should be partners in pursuit of common development, treat each other with sincerity, empower each other, and enable each other's success.
China is willing to work with the United States to address their respective concerns through communication in the spirit of equality, respect and mutual benefit, he said.
Chinese premier calls on U.S. Congress to facilitate bilateral exchanges, cooperation
Nicaragua's co-foreign minister Valdrack Jaentschke has warned that militarism must never be allowed to rise again, as Japan's recent moves to lift its arms export ban and revise the pacifist Constitution continue to draw international concern.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trials, where Japan's Class-A war criminals from World War II were brought to justice.
In an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN), Valdrack Jaentschke voiced his concern that today's world order is being undermined by interventionism and other challenges.
"It is necessary for us to remember that after the end of World War II, countries worked hard to build a new international order based on international law. However, regrettably, more than 80 years later, we are seeing that this once explored and attempted order is being challenged by interventionism, a confrontational mindset, and tendencies like 'might makes right.' These are precisely the conditions that gave rise to fascism and militarism in the past, which ultimately led to the tragedy of World War II," he said.
He said the international community has a responsibility to pursue a new international order -- one fundamentally grounded in peace.
"Looking back at the history more than eight decades ago and comparing it with today's reality, it is our responsibility to recognize that the world should, and must, build a new international order that is more just, fairer, rooted in international law, based on a logic of mutual benefit and shared success, and fundamentally grounded in peace," said the minister.
"Today, as we revisit the Tokyo Trials, it is meant to remind the world that such a tragedy must never be repeated -- and that we must do everything in our power to prevent it from happening again. We must stop that dark world -- born from militarism, interventionism, and fascism -- from ever returning," he said.
Nicaraguan FM warns of militarism revival
