Washington told: Drop your biases In the past few years, China-US relations deviated from the normal track, and ran into the biggest difficulties since the establishment of diplomatic ties

BEIJING, China (Xinhua) — Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday called on US policymakers to abandon biases, give up unwarranted suspicions, and move to bring the China policy back to reason to ensure a healthy and steady development of China-US relations.

Wang made the remarks when delivering a speech at the opening of the Lanting Forum in Beijing, with the theme of “Promoting Dialogue and Cooperation and Managing Differences: Bringing China-US Relations Back to the Right Track.”

Fifty years ago, Dr. Henry Kissinger made the ice-breaking visit to China, and with extraordinary political resolve, leaders of China and the United States jointly reopened the door of interaction which had been closed for decades, Wang said.

However, in the past few years, China-US relations deviated from the normal track, and ran into the biggest difficulties since the establishment of diplomatic ties, he said.

He blamed the previous US administration for distorting China’s future path and policy.

“Fifty years later today, we must, with the sense of responsibility for the two countries and the world, make once again the sensible and right decision,” he said.

Noting that the presidents of the two countries had their first telephone call on the Lunar New Year’s eve, Wang said the very important phone call has oriented China-US relations that had been struggling to ascertain its bearings at a crossroads and sent out the first encouraging news of this spring for the two countries and the whole world.

Saying that the new US administration is reviewing and assessing its foreign policy, he called on the US side to abandon biases, give up unwarranted suspicions, and move to bring the China policy back to reason to ensure a healthy and steady development of China-US relations.

The foreign minister said that it is important to respect each other and not to interfere in each other’s internal affairs, saying that this is a basic norm governing international relations. Noting that China has all along respected the choices made by the American people, Wang said

China has no intention to challenge or replace the United States and stands ready to have peaceful coexistence and seek common development with the United States.