China and the US are global giants. What happens between them shapes global stability. For years, Washington has viewed China’s rise as a challenge to the “rules-based” order that sustains America’s global preeminence. As a result, the United States has sought to stymie China’s ascent across geopolitical, diplomatic, economic, and strategic fronts, straining bilateral ties. Yet their economic interdependence never allowed a complete diplomatic breakdown. Neither can afford decoupling without first inflicting harm on itself.

China-US ties may not return to the past, but they can still move toward a more stable future. Amid a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape, Beijing has consistently reaffirmed a commitment to building a stable and sustainable relationship with Washington grounded in its core principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation.

Beijing has also reiterated its resolve to protect its sovereignty, security, and development interests, while expressing continued support for people-to-people exchanges between the two peoples. At the same time, China has sought to present itself as a responsible global actor, arguing that growing economic interdependence between the world’s two largest economies makes confrontation costly and cooperation beneficial.

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Chinese officials and media increasingly frame the China-US economic relationship as win-win, pointing to massive trade and investment flows and employment linkages that bind the two juggernauts together. More than 7,000 Chinese-invested firms operate in the United States, while tens of thousands of American companies remain active in China, collectively supporting millions of jobs on both sides.

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