The Asia-Pacific region is the testing ground for a new relationship
between China and the United States that seeks to avoid repeating the conflict
between rising and established powers that is found in history, Chinese
Vice-Foreign Minister Fu Ying has said.
She noted that while the
economies of the two top powers in the world were interdependent, "there
still seem to be people in the US who worry about competition from China for
world dominance".
She added, however, that the
Chinese people had little interest in dominating the world.
"Given China's population,
its per capita GDP (gross domestic product) remains low and meeting the needs
of 1.3 billion people remains the primary policy objective for China for the
foreseeable future," she said.
However, the Chinese people do
not wish to be dominated either, she said.
Noting that the US has been
paying more attention to Asia, she said that countries in the region welcomed
more US input to contribute more to regional peace and prosperity. "That's
a good thing," she said at an interview on Saturday.
However, she also said there is
concern in China that the US' "rebalancing" has been largely focused
on military aspects.
"The question is: Who is the
target?" she asked.
There has been rumbling in some
quarters in China that the US is seeking to contain the rising Asian power in
its pivot to Asia.
Referring to US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton's recent tour of six nations in the region, the Chinese
official Xinhua news agency said in an article last month: "It is true
that one objective of Clinton's tour is to contain China's increasing
influence, but the core of US strategy is to defend its dominance and hegemony
in the Asia-Pacific region."
How China and the US get along is
of strategic importance for the Asia-Pacific region, Fu said on Saturday.
She added that China has proposed
to the US that the two sides build a new type of power relationship to avoid
repeating the kind of conflict between rising and established powers found in
history, and that Washington has responded positively.
Noting that the Asia-Pacific
region was the testing ground for this relationship, she said it was China's
hope that a relationship of trust and cooperation with the US could be nurtured
in the region.
"Asean has an important role
to play in helping China and the US move in this direction," she added.
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