New changes in balance of power: China VS US

Chinese culture is growing in popularity

Cultural influence is the deepest impact a country can exert on others. After five thousand years, Chinese culture has unique qualities. In recent years, Chinese Confucian culture has attracted attention, revealing the depths of China's cultural heritage.

Joe Nye, former dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, said that China's traditional culture, and especially Confucian culture, has had a considerable impact on the world. It has wide appeal. China's traditional arts and crafts, for example, the Chinese people's understanding of the relationship between man and nature, Chinese calligraphy, painting, Chinese martial arts, and even Chinese food and traditional costumes are very popular in the United States.

China's global influence will become more significant

"One Road, One Belt" is a new initiative proposed by China. It too is a focus of international attention.

From the geographical point of view, the Silk Road economic belt and the maritime Silk Road are expected to link nearly half of the population of the world. They will connect with the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. These economic belts will greatly expand China's economic development space and provide strategic support for the sustainable and stable development of China's economy.

Over the past 30 years, China has accepted the world and followed the rules of the world game in the course of reform and opening up. Today, China needs not only to abide by the existing international rules, but also to make its own voice heard in the international arena.

Last November, President Xi Jinping held a meeting with US President Barack Obama at Zhongnanhai. Xi said that the two countries should understand and respect each other, and live in harmony by focusing on similarities and respecting differences. It is inevitable for the two countries to have some divergences, but this is not the main current of their bilateral relations. Both governments should serve as stabilizers and handle conflict in a constructive fashion, so as to achieve cooperation and win-win results.