March 22, 2017

"During US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's China tour over the weekend, he mentioned twice that relations between China and the US should be built on non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation. Beijing often uses the expression to describe a new type of major power relations between the two. Yet Tillerson seems to be the first ever high-level US official to have publicly acknowledged this. Hence his remarks attracted widespread attention.

Some scholars in Washington think tanks and media in the US have been criticizing Tillerson ever since, calling his words a 'big mistake,' which offered Beijing a 'diplomatic victory.' Such a response from the US elites is quite surprising."

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