Xi Jinping affirms that China-U.S. relations will mark the “destiny of humanity”

Chinese President Xi Jinping declared this Monday that the way China and the United States manage their relationship will be decisive for “the destiny of humanity”, when receiving a delegation of US senators in Beijing.

“The relationship between China and the United States is the most important in the world“Xi Jinping said before the delegation led by the Senate majority leader, Democrat Chuck Schumer.

“How China and the United States deal with each other in the face of a world in crisis will determine the future and destiny of humanity”he added.

“Our countries, together, will shape this century“, answered Schumer.

The US senators were received in the morning by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yion his third day of visiting China.

“We hope this visit will help the United States have a more accurate understanding of China, view Sino-US relations more objectively, and manage existing differences more rationally.”he declared Wang Yi.

“We have to manage our relationships responsibly”he added Chuck Schumer.

The bilateral relationship between the two largest economies on the planet is strained by trade disputes, Beijing’s expansion in the South China Sea – an important route for the transit of goods – and the issue of Taiwan, a democratically governed island considered a rebel territory by the Chinese government.

“They fuel the fentanyl crisis”

Schumer cited as “goal number one” establish “Level playing field for American companies and workers”.

The senator pointed out that there were other issues of “major concern” to raise during the visit, such as the crisis of the fentanyla powerful synthetic opioid that can be used as a drug and has caused tens of thousands of deaths in the United States.

Last week, the United States sanctioned and charged Chinese companies for supplying substances to drug traffickers, such as the Mexican Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels, to manufacture fentanyl.

Schumer He insisted on this issue on Monday, stating that Washington’s objectives include holding “accountable”China-Based Companies Supplying Deadly Chemicals Fueling America’s Fentanyl Crisis”.

And likewise, he added, “Ensure that China does not support Russia’s immoral war against Ukraine”.

“Ruthless” attacks

The Democratic senator also addressed the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement. Hamaswhich on Saturday launched a massive operation on Israeli soil, to which the Jewish State responded by bombing hundreds of targets in Gaza.

“I urge you and the Chinese people to stand in solidarity with the Israeli people and condemn these cowardly and ruthless attacks“, said Schumer to Wanga request that he repeated before Xi Jinping.

“We are shocked by the civilian casualties caused by the conflict”declared Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning.

The senator also met with the chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People’s Congress, Zhao Leji.

“It is normal for two great powers to be in competition“, said Schumerinsisting that the United States ““It does not seek conflict.”

Despite the multiple differences, both powers resumed high-level dialogue in recent months with a series of visits by high-ranking US officials to Beijing, including Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, in June.

Nor is a meeting ruled out between the Chinese president, Xi Jinpingand the North American Joe Biden at the APEC summit, the Asia-Pacific economic cooperation forum, in mid-November in San Francisco.

Biden himself said on Friday that it is “a posibility”.