Another Cold War can be avoided

Editor's Note: In a recent interview with Kyoto News Agency in Shenzhen, Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, talked about Sino-US relations, 5G and Huawei's development among other issues. Following are some of his remarks translated from a report on the interview by guancha.cn:

China and the United States will not enter a new Cold War, if the US stops closing itself, and China continues to open itself to the outside world wider and wider. A cold war can only happen when both countries choose to close themselves off. A cold war cannot happen when the two powers are open. The US needs China's market, and its economy will suffer heavily without China's market.

As long as China remains open, globalization will unlikely be a split process. Trade disputes between China and the US can be solved through negotiation. On this issue, China and Japan have done much better. The two neighbors have also encountered conflicts and disputes on some issues in recent years, but the Japanese government has always done a good job in separating politics from trade and the economy.