President Xi Jinping  of China on Thursday met with the Assistant to the U.S. President for National Security Affairs, Jake Sullivan, in Beijing.

During their meeting, Xi stated that in a changing and turbulent world, countries needed solidarity and coordination, not division or confrontation.

According to him, people want openness and progress, not exclusion or regress.

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Xi said, “As two major countries, China and the U.S., should be responsible for history, for the people and for the world, and should be source of stability for world peace and propeller for common development.

“While great changes have taken place in the two countries and in China-U.S. relations, China’s commitment to the goal of a stable, healthy and sustainable China-U.S. relationship remains unchanged.

“Its principle in handling the relationship based on mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation remains unchanged, its position of firmly safeguarding the country’s sovereignty, security and development interests remains unchanged.

“Its efforts to carry forward the traditional friendship between the Chinese and American people remain unchanged.”

The Chinese president further expressed the hope that the U.S. side will work in the same direction with China.

Also that it will view China and its development in a positive and rational light.

“To see each other’s development as an opportunity rather than a challenge and to work with China to find a right way for two major countries to get alongwith each other’s,” Xi added.