Nations must give, take, new report says

Absolute "winning" or "losing" is unlikely to occur in modern international relations, and concession is necessary during exchanges between countries, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Monday.

Fu Ying, chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress and chief expert of the National Institute for Global Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, was speaking in Beijing at the release of a report calling for win-win development of China-US ties.

The report, written by Chinese think tanks, says both China and the United States fully understand the danger of the so-called Thucydides trap- when an established power is threatened by a growing power-and that they need to overcome challenges to achieve a win-win outcome.