On September 30, Chinese language Ambassador to the USA Xie Feng mentioned at a reception celebrating the 77th anniversary of the founding of the Folks’s Republic of China that President Xi Jinping’s first state go to to the USA in 11 years was one which has charted the course for China-U.S. relations.

Ambassador Xie mentioned, head-of-state diplomacy anchors the bilateral relationship. Having witnessed many interactions between President Xi and President Trump, I’ve come to treat their mutual respect and sincerity as essentially the most useful strategic asset in our relationship. Their private connection and in-depth dialogue have helped maintain China-U.S. relations on target at important moments.

In Beijing, the 2 presidents agreed on a brand new imaginative and prescient of constructing a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability. In Washington, they gave that imaginative and prescient better substance by means of the rules of “respect, equity and reciprocity.” Below their management, our relationship continues to enhance and transfer steadily ahead, assembly the hopes of individuals in each international locations and around the globe. Our two international locations should step as much as flip this imaginative and prescient into motion—towards a relationship the place cooperation is the mainstay, competitors is saved inside correct limits, variations are managed, and peace may be anticipated. Collectively, we should overcome the Thucydides Lure and discover the fitting method for China and the USA to get alongside.