State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China and the United States need to re-embrace the conviction that helped the two countries break the ice 50 years ago, and set out on a new journey.

Major-country competition should not be the order of the day and a zero-sum game is not the right choice, Wang said.

In a globalized and interdependent world, how China and the US find the right way forward and manage to get along is both a new question for humanity and a formulation that must be worked out by China and the US together, Wang added.

We must replace the "competitive-collaborative-adversarial" trichotomy with the three principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, return the China policy of the US to the right track guided by reason and pragmatism, and put China-US relations back on the right path of healthy and stable development, he said.