China-U.S. ties at new historical starting point

Our strategic mutual trust has grown and we have become wiser and more rational in handling various issues. China and the United States shoulder important responsibilities for world peace and stability. We should live in amity, not enmity. We should engage in cooperation, not confrontation. This has increasingly become the shared view of people from various walks of life in both countries.

The common interests linking our two countries have grown. China-U.S. relationship today has gained stronger domestic support and assumed greater global significance. It has become an invaluable asset of both peoples. We have worked together bilaterally and on multilateral occasions, from political and security issues to economic and financial issues, from regional hotspots to transnational challenges.

One can hardly find any issue on which we do not cooperate. The two-way trade volume has surged from $2.4 billion in the early days of diplomatic relations to more than $300 billion today, an increase of over 120 times.