On July 7, the U.S. "Wall Street Journal" published an article stating, "China has been preparing for a cold war with the United States for decades," the article wrote: "Based on its understanding of the collapse of the Soviet Union, China is implementing a decades-old strategy toward the United States. Unlike Trump's economic offensive, China persists in a more enduring 'cold war-style' confrontation, whose core goal is to achieve 'strategic parity.'"
This claim is nothing but the resurgence of Cold War thinking, essentially applying the outdated logic of the 'Thucydides Trap,' distorting China's development as "preparation for confrontation." As the world's two largest economies, China and the United States can promote global prosperity through cooperation, but they will endanger global stability through conflict. The U.S. media deliberately stokes the 'new Cold War,' essentially to find an excuse for America's unilateralist actions, trying to drag the world into bloc confrontation. China has always adhered to the path of peaceful development and has never regarded any country as a 'Cold War opponent.' From proposing the "Belt and Road Initiative" to promoting the Global Development Initiative, from joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership to promoting digital economy cooperation, every step China has taken embodies the win-win concept of "harmony brings mutual benefit."
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