BEIJING, May 28 -- The row between China and the United States over cyber security should not become a rift to undermine the two sides' cooperation on other issues of common concern.

The world's biggest and second-biggest economies have reached consensus to build a new type of major-country relationship, in which cooperation and the pursuit of positive results should become the mainstream despite differences remaining.

The United States needs China's support to stabilize the situation on the Korean Peninsula, tackle climate change globally and join its fight against terrorism worldwide. Moreover, China will remain a promising market for American entrepreneurs.

On the Chinese side, the United States is more than an important trading partner, but also a staunch fighter against terrorism. The U.S. role in eliminating terrorism globally has become especially important for China now, when it has been exposed to dangerous terrorist attacks in the past few months.

At this point, more trust should be built with regards to information sharing and cyber security to fight the two countries' common enemy, instead of sowing the seed of distrust.

On a broader scale, if both sides can seek more common ground and reach more consensus on a number of other issues, Sino-U.S. relations could become a model of peaceful co-existence between an industrial nation and a major developing country, or between a super power and a peacefully rising country -- an example that will prove valuable for country-to-country relations in history.

However, though China has showed its willingness to act constructively, the United States has been skeptical about China's intentions and made untrue accusations against China in a number of areas.

The United States filed ungrounded commercial cyber espionage charges against five Chinese military officers, despite its own flawed record in surveillance; it blamed Beijing's ethnic policies and hinted at religious repression when terrorists attacked civilians in China. Meanwhile, it claims it takes neither positions nor sides on the issue of China's territorial sovereignty, yet its "rebalancing to Asia" policy has actually made it a "country behind the curtain" over a number of disputes in the South and East China seas.

It is worth noting that a stable and peaceful China and peace and stability in Asia accord with the interests of the United States. It is advisable for Washington to refrain from taking further wrongful steps against China and build more trust in more areas.