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Xinhua Interviews Helga Zepp-LaRouche on New U.S.-China Relations
12 February 2017
EIRNS—China’s news agency Xinhua published the following interview, datelined Berlin, Feb. 10, with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, under the headline, "Interactions between Chinese, U.S. Leaders `Very Positive Signs of Ties—German Expert" "The recent interactions between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump, particularly their latest phone conversation, are very positive signs of the potential to develop a new type of bilateral relations, a German expert said Friday. "`President Trump’s letter and subsequent phone call with President Xi Jinping are very positive signs that he indeed wants to develop a constructive relationship with China,’ Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Germany-based think tank Schiller Institute, said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua. "The expert said she was confident that the positive signs would help realize China’s proposal to build a new type of major-country relationship featuring non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation "`I think we are at the beginning of a completely new set of relations among major nations of the world. Geopolitics will soon be a matter of the past,’ Zepp-LaRouche said, responding to a question about the prospect of China-U.S. ties in the long run. "Reviewing the current dynamics in major-power relationship, Zepp-LaRouche believed that a new platform of international relations can be reached, based on win-win cooperation. "`This has the potential for a new era of mankind, the realization of President Xi’s vision’ of building a community of shared future for humanity, she said. `A new paradigm, something I would call the adulthood of civilization, is within reach.’ "In their phone conversation Friday, the first since Trump took office in January, Xi and Trump pledged to boost win-win cooperation in such areas as economy, trade, investment and international affairs, and develop a constructive China-U.S. relationship." http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-02/11/c_136048903.htm |