Compromise called for in Sino-US ties

Beijing and Washington should "take good care of each other's concerns", the foreign affairs chief of China's top legislative body said and warned of the consequences of miscalculation.

Fu Ying, a veteran diplomat and former Vice-Foreign Minister, also said that the US pivot to the Asia-Pacific region has given many Chinese people the impression that "the Pacific Ocean is no longer an ocean of peace". Washington has consistently claimed that the pivot is not about containing China.

"The absence of mutual understanding and trust may make many problems and differences look larger, causing more turbulence for the relationship," the chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress said at a seminar in Beijing on Wednesday.