China News Service, Beijing, September 25th: Title: Meeting with Trump at the White House, Xi Jinping specifically talked about the "nail-nailing spirit"
China News Service reporter Zhang Su
On September 24, local time, when Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with US President Trump at the White House, they talked about an expression with special connotation: the spirit of nailing.
Xi Jinping pointed out that building a constructive strategic and stable relationship between China and the United States is not a quick fix, nor can it be achieved overnight. All departments, fields, and levels of the two countries must "implement the consensus reached by both parties in a nail-biting spirit."
In China, the spirit of nailing is generally regarded as a scientific working method. Scholars interviewed said that in a critical year for the development of China and the United States, Xi Jinping pointed out the direction and path for China and the United States to move towards a correct way of getting along with each other, demonstrating China's sincerity, pragmatism and long-term vision.
The spirit of nailing lies in consistency.
In May this year, when the heads of state of China and the United States met in Beijing, they unanimously decided to build a constructive strategic and stable relationship between China and the United States.
Gao Fei, president of the China Foreign Affairs University, said that building a constructive strategic and stable relationship between China and the United States requires targeting and perseverance. The United States in particular needs to maintain policy continuity and stability and inject certainty into bilateral relations with positive expectations.
The new positioning reflects the reality of Sino-US relations and also reflects expectations for the future. During this meeting with Trump, Xi Jinping pointed out that China and the United States should and can definitely "achieve mutual benefit and win-win results through pragmatic cooperation, achieve mutual success through healthy competition, properly handle differences while seeking common ground while reserving differences, and build peace through accumulation of mutual trust."
Wu Xinbo, director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University, said that from the written speech he delivered when he arrived in the United States to the face-to-face exchanges between the heads of state of China and the United States, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of cooperation, moderate competition, controllable differences, and hope for peace when explaining a constructive strategic and stable relationship, demonstrating the consistency of China's policy toward the United States.
The spirit of nailing lies in achieving practical results.
For some time, Sino-US relations have generally been moving along the constructive, strategic and stable track set by the two heads of state. The two major political, diplomatic and economic and trade mechanisms of the two sides continue to play a role, and interactions are becoming increasingly frequent.
Emphasizing on the implementation of consensus in the spirit of nailing, Xi Jinping pointed out in an old saying that both sides should "never ignore good deeds because they are small, and do not do evil because they are small."
Zhu Feng, dean of the School of International Relations at Nanjing University, said that this sentence shows that both sides need to deepen cooperation and manage differences step by step.
China and the United States have extensive common interests and vast space for cooperation. It is the common expectation of both countries to expand the list of cooperation and shorten the list of issues. The outside world has noticed that the economic and trade teams of both sides recently held a new round of consultations and reached a new joint arrangement. The two sides also held their first dialogue on artificial intelligence.
During this meeting, the two heads of state made arrangements around multiple issues such as economy, trade, and artificial intelligence. Wu Xinbo said that these measures will help enhance mutual trust between China and the United States, expand exchanges and cooperation, and promote the implementation of a constructive strategic and stable relationship between China and the United States.
The spirit of nailing lies in achieving success over a long period of time.
The hope of Sino-US relations lies in the people and the future lies in the youth. From the "50,000 in five years" initiative achieving its expected goal ahead of schedule, to the American people celebrating the birthday of the giant panda "Qingbao" in the United States, the people of China and the United States have been working non-stop in both directions. Many recent U.S. polls show that U.S. public opinion on China has rebounded and become warmer.
During this visit, Xi Jinping announced that in the next five years, China will invite 100,000 American teenagers to exchange and study in China. Giant pandas "Ping Ping" and "Fu Shuang" will soon settle in the Atlanta Zoo to meet the American people.
Zhu Feng said that building a constructive strategic and stable relationship between China and the United States is a long-term and systematic project. Only by working in the same direction and making long-term achievements can we find a correct way to get along with each other. The series of new measures taken by this visit to promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges will consolidate the foundation of public opinion and accumulate energy for the relations between the two countries.
Experts believe that driving nails relies on maintaining tenacity and lasting force. The trickle of people-to-people friendship will inject more impetus into the steady and long-term progress of the Sino-US relationship. (over)
