China and the U.S. Should Avoid Conflict and "Coexist Peacefully" — Xi Jinping

The United States and China should avoid becoming embroiled in conflict and "coexist peacefully," said Chinese President Xi Jinping in a speech at the arrival ceremony at the White House during his state visit to Washington.

“China and the United States must adhere to a policy of no conflict and no confrontation, and we will certainly be able to find the right path for our two great nations to coexist on this planet, which we both call home,” Xi Jinping noted. He believes that the U.S. and Chinese armed forces should maintain regular communication and improve mechanisms for communication in the event of crises and for crisis prevention.

The two countries should not shy away from competition, but it must be healthy and remain within reasonable limits, the Chinese president continued. “It should be a race in which one catches up with the other, not a contest in which one either wins or loses,” he said. In particular, Xi mentioned the leading positions of China and the United States in the field of artificial intelligence. “We both have the opportunity and the responsibility to develop and manage AI for the common good and to ensure that the development of AI always remains under human control and serves the well-being of people,” he said.

"Cooperation between China and the United States may not solve all the world's problems. But without it, it will be difficult to solve many of the world's problems," Xi Jinping said.

During talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, the Chinese president raised the issue of Taiwan, a sensitive topic for Beijing. China expects the U.S. to take the “right stance in opposing ‘Taiwan independence’” and take a “prudent” approach to this issue in order to lay a solid foundation for bilateral strategic cooperation and the development of relations, Xi said, according to a report by the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

China has once again resorted to “panda diplomacy”: the President of the People’s Republic of China announced that in the coming days, two pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, will arrive at the Atlanta Zoo. China owns all the pandas in the world and decides for itself which countries to lend them to and which not to.

Xi Jinping arrived in the United States on Wednesday, September 23. Trump personally greeted him at Andrews Air Force Base: this is the first time a U.S. president has welcomed a foreign leader at the aircraft steps since 1962, when John F. Kennedy greeted British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, the FT noted.

Trump said he would discuss security, technology, and artificial intelligence with the Chinese president, the newspaper added.

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