Dialogue the key to stability

At a recent meeting of Chinese and US think tanks, how to maintain global and regional stability dominated the discussions.

Compared with the Chinese participants who focused on how to prevent conflicts and confrontation from sabotaging the safe international environment on which countries depend for peaceful development, their counterparts from the United States were more interested in how to maintain the established US-led global order and contain any challenge to it.

Despite the US efforts to retain its global dominance, especially after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the international situation continues to change. The economic strength of Asia-Pacific countries is growing, while the continuing integration in Europe and deepening cooperation among BRICS countries have advanced multi-polarization. Under these circumstances, the international community has been calling for the major powers to hold a strategic outlook that contributes to widespread stability and security, which benefits the peaceful development of all.