18 November 2016

News Story: Ambassador says China, U.S. need to avoid confrontation

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States need to identify common ground, remain consistent and be creative in developing relations, Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai said here Wednesday.

Cui made the appeal at the screening of a film about late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's U.S. visit in 1979, "Mr. Deng goes to Washington."

China and the United States must show the world that they can sidestep the Thucydides Trap, a situation where a rising power causes fear in an established power which escalates toward war.

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