Inclusive order still vital for China, US

Delivering a keynote speech at the 25th China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade session last month in Chicago, the United States, Vice-Premier Wang Yang said China was willing to join the US-led economic system, stressing that the US would continue to be the most powerful nation and that a rising China "has neither the intention nor the capability to challenge America's leading status".

"We basically accept these rules and are willing to play a constructive role in the global economic structure, established under the US leadership even before China started its reform and opening-up efforts", Wang said.

A paper recently published by Gatestone Institute, a US international policy council and think tank, has interpreted Wang's remark as a "dramatic change of heart by the Chinese leadership", which earlier "seemed extremely suspicious of America's hegemonic role in the world". Titled "China's New International Mindset?", the paper concludes that "China seems to have realized the extreme difficulty of simply barging into a world already shaped by centuries of traditions alien to it".