Strategic misjudgment resulting from short-sightedness and shallowness is regarded as the worst mistake in the development of China-US relations. Unfortunately, the US side has been repeating the mistake over and over again for a long time.

In its official documents from the National Security Strategy introduced in December 2017 to the National Defense Strategy released in January 2018 and then the United States Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China released in May 2020, the US has deliberately misrepresented China’s political system and development goals time after time, wantonly hyped up the so-called “China threat”, and used it as an excuse to agitate for adopting tough policies to contain China in all aspects.

Whether China and the US should benefit from cooperation together or lose from confrontation is actually a simple question. It’s a pity that certain politicians in the US, who cannot understand history, grasp reality, or predict the future due to their narrow vision and shallow minds, have been obsessed with the paranoid delusion that wherever China gains, the US loses.

The urge of some US politicians to provoke a so-called “new Cold War” against China is getting increasingly wild and their attempt to jeopardize China-US relations for selfish political gains is becoming clearer and clearer with each passing day.

It can never be ignored or distorted that in the globalized world today, China’s development means win-win results for both China and the world. In this sense, to hinder the development of China is the same as sabotaging the development of the whole world, including the US.

Certain US politicians have lately intensified their efforts to fabricate lies out of thin air to slander the CPC, making such malicious accusation as “CPC’s designed for hegemony”, and tried to incite other countries to join its anti-China camp.

Given that the interests of China and the US are so closely intertwined, containing China’s development is not at all in line with the interests of America and the American people. When the US side wielded its big stick of tariff against China, the pain was actually first inflicted upon enterprises, farmers, and consumers in the US.

In the face of US suppression of certain Chinese companies through political means, many entrepreneurs and far-sighted people in the US explicitly said that such a move was sacrificing interests of the US.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19, some politicians in the US have been politicizing the pandemic and stigmatizing China. However, they can never cover up the truth about their inadequate response to the outbreak.

As the surging number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and fatalities arouses strong dissatisfaction among the public, certain politicians’ old trick of buck-passing and political manipulation would only add fuel to the flames of fury. It has been proven again that no country can pay the debts of domestic governance for the US government, and the US side will never “make America great again” by suppressing China.

It is “flat wrong” to suggest that working with China has not served US interests, said Robert B. Zoellick, former US Deputy Secretary of State, adding that “self-deception will lead to dangerous diplomacy”.

"We must call out the China Threat hucksters as posing a clear and present danger to the safety and well-being of all Americans," wrote an article published on US magazine The Nation.

Some politicians in the US have made a serious misjudgment when talking about the relationship between the CPC and the Chinese people, pointed out Singaporean scholar Kishore Mahbubani.

The CPC is not a party about to crack up under American pressure: it is floating on an ocean of legitimacy among 1.4 billion Chinese people, who are now happy as they are experiencing a new high tide in the history of Chinese civilization, said the scholar in an article carried by the National Interest.

Since the trend of the times can never be stopped, established powers particularly need to treat the rise of emerging powers with a healthy and rational mentality. By sharing opportunities with each other and drawing on each other’s strengths, developing countries and developed countries can surely make the “cake” of common interests bigger, improve people’s well-being and guarantee peace for the world.

"The west can and must live with a rising China. But it should do so by being true to the better angels of its own nature. If it is to manage this turn of the wheel of history, it has to look within,” wrote Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times.

A government can never reverse the general trend of the times, and should never go against people’s will. These are major issues of principle that allow no misjudgment.

The US side ought to choose to meet China halfway and make joint efforts with China to create a general landscape in which the two countries can cooperate while compete, achieve win-win results in cooperation, and realize common development that the people of China and the US have always wanted