Actions work better in maintaining stable Sino-US ties
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A formation of the Nanhai Fleet of China's Navy finished a three-day patrol of the Nansha islands in the South China Sea. [Photo/Xinhua] |
The United States and China share far more common interests than differences. To steer the world's most important relationship ever on the right and healthy track demands sincere and actual efforts of both sides.
The U.S. sides, however, seems to have no heart to catch the "profound opportunity to set a constructive course and wide range of issues that will affect everybody across the planet," as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry put it in Beijing only days ago.
Recent remarks made by some U.S. senior officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, are poisonous to the ties between "the two of the world's major powers and largest economies".
Commenting on China's legitimate island construction in the South China Sea, Biden told young cadets of the U.S. Navy Academy at a graduation ceremony that China is the destabilizing factor in the South China Sea and the United States should keep peace in the region "as it has for the past 60 years."
"Coinciding" with Biden's speech, the Pentagon indicated that the U.S. military would conduct surveillance over China's island construction in the region.
Such accusation and move are groundless and officious as China has been undertaken legal and reasonable construction activities within its own territorial waters, and the United States is not a party in the maritime disputes in the region.
They also reveal the U.S. hidden motivation -- to contain China and maintain its own hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region.
China's construction in the South China Sea within its sovereignty is aiming to provide service for marine search and rescue, disaster prevention and reduction, and navigation safety, as well as fulfilling the country's international responsibilities and obligations.
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