Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday has warned that Beijing's most of the US critics were creating an atmosphere of "McCarthyism" and ignoring common interests. On the other side, China's top diplomat has offered cooperation on key priorities of President-elect Joe Biden. Wang expressed hope for a return of talks and "mutual trust" between the world's two largest economic powers after Biden takes over on January 20.
Wang in a virtual address to the New York-based Asia Society said, "It is important that US policy toward China return to objectivity and sensibility as early as possible". Wang said that China saw "space for cooperation" with Biden on three of the four issues he has identified as immediate priorities -- Covid-19, economic recovery and climate change. Biden's fourth stated priority is racial equity. He added Beijing and Washington could collaborate in manufacturing coronavirus vaccines and assisting third countries.
"We hope that we will expand cooperation and manage differences through dialogue," Wang said. Trump administration accuses Beijing of rampantly stealing intellectual property, widespread espionage and coercion of other nations through its blitz of infrastructure projects and added decades of US engagement have failed with China. "We see McCarthyism resurging and jeopardizing normal international exchanges," Wang said. He also accused unnamed senior US officials of "irresponsible presumption of guilt and emotional lashing-out". "They ignore the vast common interests and room for cooperation between the two countries and insist that China is a main threat," Wang said. "This is like misaligning the buttons on clothing. They get things wrong at the very beginning."
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