Biden win opens door for improved predictability in China-US relations: Chinese state media
09 November, 2020
Chinese state media struck an optimistic tone on Monday (Nov 9) in editorials reacting to Democrat Joe Biden's win of the united states presidential elections, saying relations could be restored to circumstances of greater predictability and may start with trade.
While acknowledging the United States was unlikely to help ease pressure on China on issues such as for example Xinjiang and Hong Kong, state-backed newspaper Global Times said Beijing should work to talk to the Biden team as thoroughly as it could.
The Trump administration had deliberately created tensions in China-US relations, especially after adopting a campaign strategy of pressuring China, which resulted in "bubbles" occurring in US-China policy, it said.
"We believe that it is possible to pop those bubbles," it said.
"It's in the normal interests of folks from both countries and of international community that China-US relations become eased and controllable."
The Global Times is a tabloid published by the People's Daily, the state newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party, but will not speak with respect to the party and government.
The China Daily newspaper said in a separate editorial it had been "obvious" enhancing ties with China could begin from trade, and reviving trade talks was critical to revive some understanding and rely upon China-US relations.
"It is among the last threads linking both sides. It is notable that neither Beijing nor Washington has ventured to scrap the hard-earned so-called phase one deal they negotiated," said the China Daily, the country's official English language newspaper.
Tensions between the world's two largest economies have intensified in the last year, shaking up technology supply chains and trade relations, and stoking fears a financial war between the two countries could possibly be brewing.
The US pressure, together with the global pandemic, have set China on a mission to lessen its reliance on overseas markets and technology for its economic development, within a new "dual circulation" style of growth to steer its economy.
"China must become a country the united states cannot suppress or destabilize, and make it that cooperation with China may be the best option for the united states to realize its national interests," the Global Times added.
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