Open letter urges US not to label China an enemy
US efforts to treat China as an enemy and decouple it from the global economy will damage the United States' international role and reputation and undermine the economic interests of all nations, according to an open letter to US President Donald Trump and members of Congress, which was published on Wednesday.
The letter by 100 leading members of US scholarly, foreign policy, military and business communities appeared in The Washington Post several days after Trump and President Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Japan on Saturday.
The letter said the number and diversity of the signatories indicate "there is no single Washington consensus endorsing an overall adversarial stance toward China, as some believe exists".
