CHINESE State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Saturday that China-U.S. relations are not a zero-sum game and the U.S. should address the bilateral ties based on the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation.

In response to a recent policy speech by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who described China as “the most serious long-term challenge to the international order,” Wang said there are major misconceptions in the U.S. views about the world, China and China-U.S. relations.

Wang made the remarks while visiting Fiji, the fourth leg of his current tour to the Pacific island countries.

The world is not what the United States has described and the most pressing task facing the international community is to jointly protect human life and health, promote world economic recovery and safeguard world peace and tranquility, which calls for the establishment of a community with a shared future and for the implementation of purposes and principles enshrined in the U.N. Charter, Wang said.

He stressed that the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, Global Development Initiative and Global Security Initiative have won widespread recognition and support from the international community, and the U.S. obsession with “Western-centrism,” “exceptionalism” and the Cold War mentality, as well as its push for the logic of hegemony and bloc politics, go against the trend of history, which will only lead to confrontation and split the world community.

The U.S. has in fact become a source of turbulence that undermines the current world order and the stumbling block hindering the democratization of international relations, Wang noted.

The common pursuit of modernization by 1.4 billion Chinese people represents a great progress for mankind, rather than a threat or challenge to the world, Wang said. (Xinhua)