Cooperation is ‘best choice’, right path for China and the US, People’s Daily says
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China sent a clear indication that President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart Joe Biden will meet during a closely watched summit later this month, even though it stopped short of confirming the meeting.
The Communist Party’s flagship mouthpiece People’s Daily said in a commentary on Tuesday that the world expected strained US-China ties to improve, striking a conciliatory tone and setting the stage for the summit.
“The world is currently undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and the international landscape has undergone major changes. The world needs overall stable Sino-US relations more than ever,” the commentary said.
“The healthy and stable development of Sino-US relations not only serves the fundamental interests of the two countries and their people, but it is also the common expectation of the international community.”
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