{"id":1169,"date":"2026-05-14T14:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:50:16","slug":"chinas-xi-lauds-new-positioning-in-ties-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"China’s Xi lauds ‘new positioning’ in ties with US"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEIJING: China\u2019s President Xi Jinping hailed on Thursday a \u201cnew positioning\u201d of ties with the United States that envisages cooperation with measured competition, following his summit with President Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s Beijing visit, the first by a US president in nearly a decade, runs until Friday, at a time when his Iran war is denting domestic approval ratings ahead of mid-term elections.<\/p>\n

Xi said both leaders agreed that building a \u201cconstructive, strategically stable relationship\u201d would guide ties in the next three years and beyond, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement.<\/p>\n

Xi described such ties as based primarily on cooperation but with measured competition for \u201ca normal stability in which differences are controllable, and a lasting stability in which peace can be expected\u201d, the ministry added.<\/p>\n

Analysts said the reference to \u201cconstructive strategic stability\u201d showed China was following gradations in relations that yield a framework for diplomacy in which it can manage multi-faceted ties with the United States.<\/p>\n

Positive, but not yet partners<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new Chinese framing echoed the Clinton-era formulation of \u201cconstructive strategic partnership\u201d proposed in 1997 – the most positive following the end of the cold war – and signalled China\u2019s desire to put relations on surer footings.<\/p>\n

Beijing had framed ties with Washington in terms of partnership and cooperation in the 2000s and early 2010s.<\/p>\n

But increasing competition and rivalry after China overtook Japan to become the world\u2019s second largest economy in 2010, as well as Xi\u2019s ascendance to power in 2012 and Trump-induced volatility since 2016, resulted in language of managed interdependence, strategic competition and conflict-avoidance.<\/p>\n

The new framework marks a significant shift away from past \u201cnegative characterisations\u201d such as great-power competition, said Wang Wen, a professor at Beijing\u2019s Renmin University.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe core distinction lies in its emphasis on a positive model of interaction marked by cooperation as the mainstay, together with measured competition, manageable differences, and a foreseeable prospect of peace,\u201d Wang said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s new language and I think it reflects China\u2019s desire to put more institutional guardrails around US-China relations, both competition and cooperation,\u201d said Joe Mazur, geopolitics analyst at Beijing-based consultancy Trivium China.<\/p>\n

China and the US \u201cshould be partners, rather than rivals,\u201d Xi said while holding a state banquet for Trump on Thursday.<\/p>\n

But frictions, such as those over the Iran conflict and recent US sanctions on Chinese firms, continue to \u201ccomplicate US-China dynamics\u201d and may test the durability of the new framework, said Zhao Minghao, an international relations expert at Shanghai\u2019s Fudan University.<\/p>\n

Even as Xi talked up cooperation, he stressed \u201cutmost caution\u201d by the United States in handling the issue of Taiwan, the democratically governed island claimed by China, although Taipei rejects the contention.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf handled poorly, the two countries could collide or even enter into conflict, pushing the entire China-US relationship into an extremely dangerous situation,\u201d the Chinese leader said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEIJING: China\u2019s President Xi Jinping hailed on Thursday a \u201cnew positioning\u201d of ties with the United States that envisages cooperation with measured competition, following his summit with President Donald Trump. Trump\u2019s Beijing visit, the first by a US president in nearly a decade, runs until Friday, at a time when his Iran war is denting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}