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The US should exercise sound strategic judgment in dealing with China, China’s defence minister Li Shangfu said in a meeting with veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger in Beijing on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Defence.
China has been committed to building stable, predictable and constructive Sino-US relations, and hopes the US can work with it to promote the healthy development of relations between their two militaries, Li said.
“Some people on the US side have failed to move in the same direction as the Chinese side, resulting in China-United States relations hovering at a low point since the establishment of diplomatic relations,” he said.
“The US and China should eliminate misunderstandings, coexist peacefully and avoid confrontation. History and practice have continually proved that neither the United States nor China can afford to treat the other as an adversary,” Kissinger said.