Pence's empty talk is smashed by the facts

Editor's Note: The speech by US Vice-President Mike Pence at the Hudson Institute earlier this month reflects Washington's antagonistic approach to China, Chen Dingding, a professor of international studies with the Guangzhou-based Jinan University, commented in People's Daily Overseas Edition on Monday. Excerpts:

China's reform and opening-up has not stopped as Pence claimed, rather it has deepened. But it has never been carried out as the "playbook" of the US values and political system.

China's development over the past 40 years of reform and opening-up has not been driven by a tail wind, instead it has been an uphill struggle in the face of a headwind.