Both sides need trust and cooperation

Were it not for the opening paragraphs that depict China as ungrateful to the United States' bounty, or the ending menace in which he urges China to "reach back", US Vice-President Mike Pence's beggar-thy-neighbor speech at the Hudson Institute on Thursday was nothing but a duplicate of outdated concepts of Cold War mentality and zero-sum games.

Speaking with fervor and assurance, but sadly without facts, Pence, in a stream of groundless accusations, accused China of aggressively trespassing upon US interests, while flaunting how the current US administration's policies have worked out.

However, as the Foreign Ministry noted on Friday, the accusations are unwarranted, slander China, confuse right and wrong and create "something out of thin air", which China firmly opposes.