US urged to give up its obsession with containing China - China.org.cn

The key for the China-U.S. relationship to walk out of the predicament is for the U.S. side to abandon its mania for zero-sum games, give up its obsession with encircling and containing China and stop undermining China-U.S. relations, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Friday.

The U.S. side should make the right choices bearing in mind the common interests of people in both countries and the world, spokesperson Wang Wenbin added.

Wang made the remarks in response to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's speech on the country's China strategy on Thursday, who described China as the "most serious long-term challenge to the international order."

Wang accused Blinken's lengthy speech of spreading disinformation, playing up the so-called "China threat," interfering in China's internal affairs and smearing China's domestic and foreign policy.

The sole purpose of it is to contain and suppress China's development and maintain the U.S. hegemony, Wang said. "China deplores and rejects this."

Humanity is now living in a new era of connectivity, where all countries share a common future and their interests are closely intertwined. Wang said that the U.S. sensationalization of the so-called "China threat" cannot solve its own problems, and will only lead the world to a dangerous abyss.

The U.S. side is completely confusing right and wrong when calling China "the most serious long-term challenge to the international order," Wang said, adding that the United States always puts its domestic law above international law, and cherry-pick international rules as it sees fit in a pragmatic way. This is the biggest source of instability in the international order.