China-US strategic communication: A right way forward

HAWKS are fleeing and doves are soaring high as the highest policymakers in the United States and China work to build bridges of mutual confidence, improve understanding, and mature strategic communication strategies that will hopefully pave the way for meaningful conversations. Higher economic stakes, rising social benefits, and political agreement appear to have created a magnetic force drawing both nations to common ground on trade, climate change, and more socioeconomic integration, giving a common foundation for averting current conflicts. Thus, moderation, political decency, economic compromises, and geopolitical adjustments should be the slogan for enhancing pragmatic components in China-US ties.

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While meeting with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Chinese President Xi Jinping presented a comprehensive and strategic roadmap covering overall and directional guidance on China-US relations, demonstrating to the US side China’s clear stance to maintain the stability of China-US relations and, as a result, improve and advance the relationship. Despite quickly changing socioeconomic ties, expanding geopolitical divides, and geostrategic clashing realities, China’s policy toward the United States is very consistent, exhibiting responsible behavior and infusing important positive energy into world peace and stability.

Xi’s recipe, which includes solidarity and coordination, development, peaceful coexistence, and mutual respect, is urgently needed and will be a giant step toward achieving the strategic goals of global shared prosperity, global development, global security, and global civilizational initiatives in the coming days. Thus, collaborative efforts for stability, international peace, and a catalyst for common growth are the way forward. It is a positive sign that China’s attitude of resolutely protecting the country’s sovereignty, security, and development interests, as well as its attempts to continue the longstanding friendship between the Chinese and Americans, remain constant.

Xi expressed optimism that the US will work with China in the same direction, consider China and its growth in a positive and reasonable light, see each other’s development as an opportunity rather than a challenge, and collaborate with China to find a method for the two big countries to get along. Sullivan spoke with China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, as well as Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, during his three-day visit. It appears that Sullivan’s demand to communicate with high-ranking Chinese officials in both the diplomatic and military sectors, as well as the top leader, has been granted, demonstrating China’s sincerity in managing and stabilizing bilateral ties. After Sullivan ended his tour, commerce and trade teams

Taiwan’s long diplomatic sessions focused on democracy and human rights, the road and system, and the right to progress. The Chinese side expressed severe concerns, defined its stance, and made strong demands about these matters. People-to-people contacts, including visa and flying concerns, are expected to improve following a series of communications between the two nations. However, China-US frictions or tensions over Taiwan, the South China Sea, trade war, or science and technology limitations are unlikely to ease as long as the US’ China containment policy is in place. Thus, earnest efforts should be taken to ensure that existing tensions do not worsen and spiral out of control.

The “three responsibilities” clearly capture the core of China-US relations and represent China’s feeling of duty as a significant power. Unfortunately, the United States’ foreign policy has remained unpredictable in recent years, with unexpected emergency halt or even U-turns eliciting vigilance and harsh condemnation from the international community. On the other hand, China has constantly maintained openness in its foreign policy, with clear and transparent strategic aims, as well as a high level of continuity and stability. Thus, China always considers China-US relations and major power obligations through the prism of the “three responsibilities.” As a result, the United States and China should display open-mindedness, vision, and dedication to improving the well-being of their peoples and advancing human civilization.

Furthermore, US politicians and policymakers must grasp and recognize that China has set four red lines in China-US relations: the Taiwan dispute, democracy and human rights, the governance system, and the right to development. Sullivan emphasized that the US does not want a new Cold War, does not want to modify China’s system, does not favor “Taiwan independence,” and does not desire war with China. In conclusion, both nations should maintain strategic communication and attempt to find a means to preserve the peaceful existence of global wealth, stability, and harmony in a sustainable manner.

First, great measures should be taken to determine the best path for peaceful coexistence and common progress, notwithstanding their disparate cultures, institutions, and development pathways. Hopefully, the United States will actually adopt this attitude and come up with better resolve, moving closer to bigger matching boxes and offering sustainable inputs for global economic recovery and cooling down hotspots. The US-China trade war has become one of the world’s most contentious issues, and continued tariff treatment is weakening the American industrial sector, indicating a great desire for both the Chinese and American corporate groups to communicate and collaborate.

Political wisdom should triumph in avoiding any camp clash in which economic diplomacy, trade consultation, and commerce consensus would provide shared peace and security, while decoupling will only cage oneself. Emerging sensitive concerns such as EVs, renewables, and overcapacity should be reviewed and, eventually, handled in order to achieve the common goals of progress, optimism, productivity, and global involvement. Economic compulsions should be converted into greater economic consensus, political itching points should be converted into icebergs of cooperation and coordination, war mentality and industrial tariffs should not trap fields of AI and outer space, and, most importantly, geopolitical and geostrategic hangovers from the past should not be used to tarnish ongoing strategic communication meetings in Asia-Pacific.