Treating China as a strategic rival will hurt US' own interests

Washington's attempt to take China as a strategic rival will eventually hurt its own interests, said a spokesperson for the fifth annual session of the 13th National People's Congress at a news conference on Friday.

In response to a question about the China-US relations, Zhang Yesui, the spokesman, said how the United States chooses to raise its competitiveness, including development and manufacturing of chips, is its own business, but to use China's progress as an excuse will only erode the mutual trust and cooperation between the two countries and eventually hurt the US' own interests.

A stable China-US relationship is good for the development of both countries, Zhang said, adding it is also conducive to maintaining peaceful and stable international environment, effectively responding to climate change, COVID-19 pandemic and other global challenges.

Mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation should be the right approach for China and the US to get along with each other in the new era, he added.

"I also want to underscore that to draw lines based on ideology, or form small circles and stroke confrontation between blocs are all acts against the trend of the times and they will lead to nowhere," Zhang said.