Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi said he is not in the plans of his country become the future world power instead of the United States, and expressed confidence that after the US elections continued cooperation between the two powers.
"There will always be people suspicious of China US and that issue we can beat them, but our country is not the United States or want to become another. We do not want to displace anybody," Wang said at a press conference which reviewed the external relations the communist regime before hundreds of reporters.
Wang admitted that there have been frequent frictions between Beijing and Washington, but stressed that many have been resolved through dialogue and made reference to that effect to the consensus on issues such as climate change and recently reached between the two powers after years of tensions cybersecurity.
"Now there are maritime issues," he admitted Wang referring to tensions over disputed islands in the South China Sea (where the US has emerged as protector of regional rivals in Beijing in those waters, as the governments of the Philippines and Vietnam).
Given the suspicious by the rise of China in the US, Wang suggested that "spend more time studying the historical tradition of China" and "do not judge us with American mentality."
"When China and the US working together can benefit everyone," he reiterated Wang, who expressed the hope that after the November presidential election in that country continue the dialogue between Beijing and Washington.
"Our hope is that after the change of government in the United States, working with China to take steps in the right direction," said the head of China's diplomacy.