Dear guests, I just listened carefully to Mr. Aris's speech. He made many positive and constructive suggestions for improving the relationship between China and the United States. However, improving China-US relations is a matter of mutual consent. Only when both sides move towards each other. I think that the US policy towards China is increasingly deviating from the right track. It has stubbornly assumed that a good strategic partner is a strategic competitor, and regards China's own development and growth as a challenge and threat to the United States. This is a serious strategic misjudgment made by the United States. China has never challenged or threatened the United States. China's rapid development in the past few decades has been achieved by the Chinese people with their blood and sweat, not a gift from anyone. China's development brings opportunities to the world and makes contributions to the world. Without China's rescue, could the United States and the world have survived the 2008 financial crisis so quickly? Without the countless cheap and high-quality goods exported to the United States by China, could the United States maintain a low ventilation rate for decades? Without China's huge market, who would the United States sell so many agricultural products and hundreds of Boeing aircraft to? Without China's opening up to the outside world, could American companies of all sizes investing in China make a lot of money? Without China, the United States has bought trillions of U.S. Treasury bonds. Would the U.S. financial market be stable? If the United States did not impose hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs on China, U.S. inflation would not be as high as it is today. If the United States could work closely with China in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States would not have become the country with the most infections and deaths in the world. The United States has been promoting its so-called Indo-Pacific strategy, but the South Korean Foreign Minister said a big truth not long ago: without China's Indo-Pacific, there would be no foreign countries. Not long ago, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused China of punishing the world by stopping cooperation with the United States on climate change. I will not talk about what prompted China to do this today. I just want to say that if you understand it according to Corey's logic, the problem of climate change cannot be solved without China's cooperation. In fact, the trade war initiated by the United States against China and the series of decoupling, supply cuts, sanctions, restrictions and other measures taken by the United States against China are truly a punishment for the world and the American people.At present, the political leaders of the United States are still obsessed with the China policy of de-biasing. The so-called Indo-Pacific strategy, Indo-Pacific economic framework, Quad mechanism, Tripartite alliance, supply chain alliance, chip quartet, and a lot of bills issued by the United States, which one is not aimed at China, which one is not for the purpose of containing China, which one is not exclusive and confrontational? After the Biden administration came to power, it proposed a China policy of competition, cooperation and confrontation. Not long ago, US Secretary of State Blinken summarized the US dialogue strategy as investment, alliance and competition. In fact, aren't investment and alliance for competition and confrontation? So far, what we have seen is the competition and confrontation between the United States and China, and the cooperation between the United States and China has a good opportunity. The United States must make things difficult for China, must find fault with China, must form gangs, suppress, contain, exclude, isolate and weaken China. What good is it for the United States? What good is it for the world? Thoughts, a China with a shrinking market, a sluggish economy, foreign investment in China that cannot make money, and a China that cannot contribute to world peace and development and the resolution of global problems, is good for the United States? Is it good for the cause? Former US President Barack Obama once said that if all Chinese people could live the life of Americans, it would be a disaster for the world. Mr. Obama is too short-sighted and superficial. On the contrary, if Chinese people cannot live a good life, it would be a real disaster for the world. Have the political leaders and strategic experts of the United States calculated this problem? The world has enough troubles. The Ukrainian crisis has also made the United States and its European allies suffer enough. Does the United States want to create a bigger Sino-US crisis? Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong once said that if China and the United States conflict, everything will be over. Obviously, a conflict between China and the United States would be the biggest disaster in the world. I think no sane person wants to see this happen. No matter what means the United States uses, no matter how it forms alliances, can it really bring China down? Can it really de-Sinicize the world? Can it really stop the pace of China's development?I am afraid that those politicians who strongly advocate for worsening trade relations may not necessarily believe that their claims will succeed. According to statistics in 2021, China has more than 700 billion US dollars in trade with the United States, more than 800 billion US dollars in trade with Europe, more than 700 billion US dollars in trade with Japan and South Korea, and more than 800 billion US dollars in trade with ASEAN.
Foreign investment in China has grown against the trend and has surpassed that of the United States for the first time. Large American companies like Tesla are still investing money in China. The United States recently passed a chip and science bill that tried every means to restrict American companies from cooperating with China in chips. But little do people know that when China no longer buys American chips, where will American companies get the will and motivation to develop chips and mass-produce them? If China does not buy any American product, the company or enterprise that produces that product will suffer losses or even go bankrupt. In a few years, when China has developed a technological product that is strangled by the United States and the West, American and Western companies may have to go bankrupt. However, a large number of products produced by China have become an indispensable part of the United States and Western countries. China's role, China's market, and China's products are irreplaceable and non-exclusive in the world. It is neither realistic nor possible to force and political will to exclude China from the global industrial supply chain. Therefore, politicians and strategists in the United States and the West do not seem to have seen and understood this point, but the vast majority of developing countries have a deep understanding of this. The United States and the West have always rejected and obstructed China's Belt and Road Initiative, and constantly accused China of creating a debt trap for developing countries. I don't have time to argue today whether China is the cause of the debt limitation problem in developing countries, but what I want to say is that if China does not build railways, docks, bridges and roads for developing countries, will the United States and Western countries help them? Will the United States and Western countries invest hundreds of billions of dollars in developing countries? What China is doing is what the United States and Western countries do not want to do and are unwilling to do. This is why China's Belt and Road Initiative and China's global development initiatives are so popular in developing countries. Recently I saw a news report that after the cross-sea bridge built by China in Croatia was completed, the dream of several generations of local people was realized. The local people sang and danced and celebrated warmly, like a festival. This is China's role and contribution, which cannot be replaced or excluded by the United States and Western countries. Of course, in order to hedge against China's Belt and Road Initiative, the United States proposed a plan to rebuild the world, and Europe proposed global connectivity, European strategy, global gateway plan, etc. I hope these plans are not empty promises.1. It is difficult for the United States and the West to bring down China. The core and fundamental reason for bringing down China is that China has a strong Communist Party of China that has withstood the test of history and the baptism of blood and fire, and has great appeal, mobilization and leadership. No political party in the world enjoys such high support and trust, and no political party in the world has such a large number of members. 2. After decades of hard work by the Chinese people, China has a relatively strong and solid foundation and continues to strengthen its comprehensive national strength. 3. China has entered the most complete industrial system in the world. China's economy can circulate internally and externally, and promote each other. 4. China has a broad and deep relationship with the world. China has a relationship of mutual demand, mutual benefit and reciprocity with both developed and developing countries. Moreover, this relationship is constantly deepening and developing, and has become a mutually dependent and inseparable relationship. Based on the above aspects, no country or group of forces can bring down China or defeat China. Therefore, the political leaders of the United States and the West should weigh the pros and cons in their China policy. The Cold War mentality is to never commit violence. You have to go down a single path until you hit a wall before turning back. Recently, some politicians and political figures in the United States and the West have proposed to rebuild relations with China, believing that the current China policy is not feasible. Perhaps this is the beginning of an awakening. Cooperation between the United States and the West and China is the only wise choice. Cooperation will definitely benefit both sides and all parties, but if there is confrontation and conflict, the only loser is the party that provokes trouble. China will neither challenge the United States and the West, nor threaten the United States and the West. China is willing to be a partner of all countries in the world. China is willing to work hand in hand with all countries to maintain world peace and stability, maintain world development and prosperity, and deal with various problems facing the world. As China's national strength continues to increase, China is willing to provide more opportunities for the world and make greater contributions. The door to China's huge market is always open. It will never close its doors to the outside world, nor will it open its doors on its own. China has always linked its own destiny with the destiny of the world and its own interests with the interests of the world.This is why China has been persistently advocating the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind.