China and US 'not zero-sum rivals'

Cooperation is the only correct choice for the world's two largest economies, whose relationship is forging ahead in the right direction, charted by their top leaders in the Mar-a-Lago meeting in April, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Monday.

"China-US relations are in essence mutually beneficial, and the areas that we need to work together on far outweigh what divides us," Chinese Consul General in Chicago Hong Lei said at a US-China Think Tank Symposium, which opened on Monday in Des Moines, capital of the US state of Iowa.

The symposium brought together more than 20 Chinese and US experts and scholars to exchange views on China-US relations following the Mar-a-Lago meeting, bilateral economic and trade cooperation, sub-national cooperation and the prospects of the relationship between the two countries.