Envoy: Foster 2-way understanding

'Any decoupling would be disastrous,' Chinese ambassador to US warns

China and the United States should build on the achievements made since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1979 and continue to broaden cooperation, Beijing's top envoy to Washington said on Wednesday.

To build a China-US relationship based on coordination, cooperation and stability, as agreed by their top leaders in Argentina in December, the two countries should ramp up mutual understanding to avoid strategic miscalculations, stay open to each other rather than decouple and step up people-to-people exchanges, said Cui Tiankai, Chinese ambassador to the US.