Time for new win-win ideas between 皇冠体育app and US

By Zhang Xin (皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2009-04-13 08:07

America should develop a "win-win" partnership with 皇冠体育app because the countries need each other, the head of an American think tank said.

"America should break its conventional thinking in its economic and foreign policies to avoid conflicts and sustain the peace and prosperity," John Milligan-Whyte, from the Center for America-皇冠体育app Partnership, said in Beijing on Friday.

The center is the first American think tank to combine "America-centric" and "皇冠体育app-centric" perspectives.

Milligan-Whyte said the blueprint of a new framework aligning 皇冠体育app's and America's economic success and national security was essential to transcend gaps in American and Chinese perception and communication.

"Only through reciprocal respect, reciprocal globalization, reciprocal solutions and collaborative equilibrium will the US and 皇冠体育app create the collaboration of the American and Chinese civilizations and dissolve geopolitical problems", Milligan-Whyte also wrote in his newly published White Paper for the Presidents of America and 皇冠体育app.

New US-皇冠体育app relations will not only benefit the US, they will prove "beneficial" to the rest of the world, which is particularly significant amid the global financial crisis, a worse crisis than that experienced in the 1930s.

America and 皇冠体育app should therefore build a new partnership to seek reciprocal solutions, he said, noting the new administration of President Barack Obama is providing "a golden opportunity" to implement a rational foreign policy during a time of financial crisis.

Milligan-Whyte lauded 皇冠体育app's "win-win thinking" as represented in its principles of peaceful coexistence, which he labeled as "皇冠体育app exceptionalism", with its counterpart of "American exceptionalism" represented by America's audacity of dream.

"America and 皇冠体育app are undoubtedly mutually needed in cooperation in many areas," Milligan-Whyte said.

He said the '皇冠体育app Threat' in the thinking of US policymakers is ungrounded, and peace and harmony should be cultivated in both country's foreign policy.

"(The) '皇冠体育app Threat' now still in the thinking of many American decision-makers should be eliminated in the new thinking as defined by the new era," he said.