How will the first face-to-face meetings between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump affect China-U.S. relations as well as trilateral relations between China, Russia and the United States? At an event organized by Russian n

confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation. These principles were actually first proposed by President Xi to former U.S. President Barack Obama as the future paradigm of China-U.S. ties at their meeting in California in 2013.

In my view, large nations should assume more responsibility in bringing peace to the Middle East. The Chinese Government is firmly against the use of chemical weapons and also opposed to airstrikes on Syrian government forces before the truth is determined. The poignant consequences of the Syrian crisis are the rampant spread of terrorism as well as the refugee crisis.

The Syrian crisis should be settled through political dialogues which need cooperation among major nation states. China and Russia have efficiently coordinated their efforts to facilitate settlement of the crisis. If the presidents of the United States and Russia can hold constructive talks as soon as possible, it will surely exert a positive influence on regional and world peace. helped build mutual trust between the two governments and lay a smooth path for solving the two nations’ existing disagreements.

Both before his election and since taking office, Trump has stated a policy of shrinking U.S. involvement overseas and reducing U.S. intervention overseas. Offensive methods such as bombing Syria are only an approach used to achieve strategic retrenchment. The Trump administration’s latest move toward Syria is more like a response under heavy domestic political pressure, as Trump has been accused of being “soft” on Russia. Though the United States bombed a Syrian airfield, it is very unlikely to send ground troops onto the Syrian battlefield.

The strategic retrenchment advocated by the Trump administration is due to the comparative decline of U.S. national strength, though the world’s only superpower still tries to maintain its overseas clout.

A warming in China-U.S. relations doesn’t mean China will tilt toward the United States. Instead, China seeks a more balanced relationship with the United States. China will not ignore its relationship with Russia, with whom it shares a long border.

I am confident of peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. As President Xi said, “The broad Pacific Ocean is vast enough to embrace both China and the United States.”