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One boat, two oars, how should we row?

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November 14, local time, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in San Francisco where he will meet with U.S. President Joe Biden and attend the 30th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting. The essence of today's China-U.S. relationship is that cooperation is mutually beneficial; but obstacles, politically-driven or otherwise, are great. Lawrence H. Summers, the former U.S. Treasury Secretary, said that the United States and China are like two strong men in a rowboat, a lifeboat, in a turbulent sea, a long way from the shore. And that both of them need to be rowing in unison if they are going to get to that shore. Punching a hole through the boat could sink it. What we need is to make sure that, however turbulent the weather and the sea is, the boat stays unbreakable, and the two work in unison to get the boat ashore.

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