On July 28, 2026, the Chinese Embassy in the United States held a reception to celebrate the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Victory of the Long March. Ambassador Xie Feng attended the event and delivered remarks.

Ambassador Xie said that under the current situation, as the world’s two largest economies, permanent members of the UN Security Council, and nuclear-weapon states, China and the United States share a special and important responsibility for maintaining world peace and stability and advancing global development and prosperity. We have every obligation to pursue dialogue and cooperation, and no single reason for conflict or confrontation. During their historic summit in Beijing this May, President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump agreed to build a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability, making clear that our two countries will work toward a relationship with cooperation as the mainstay, competition within proper limits, manageable differences, and expectable peace, and explore a right way to get along in the new era.

Ambassador Xie emphasized that the stabilizing and improving momentum in China-U.S. relations has not come easily, and should be doubly cherished. The most important thing now is to take concrete measures to faithfully implement the common understandings reached between the two Presidents, translate the new vision of a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability into real actions, and keep expanding the list for cooperation while shortening the list of problems. China will resolutely safeguard its sovereignty, security, and development interests. Taiwan, democracy and human rights, path and system, and development rights are China’s four red lines, which should not be challenged.  “Taiwan independence” and cross-Strait peace are as irreconcilable as fire and water. The U.S. side should adhere to the one-China principle and the three Sino-U.S. Joint Communiqués, and exercise extra caution in handling the Taiwan question.

Ambassador Xie pointed out that both history and reality have proven time and again that the world is large enough for China and the U.S. to develop respectively and thrive together. Facing so many challenges during our times, it is all the more important for China and the U.S. to live up to our shared responsibility for the global good. At this new historical starting point, it is hoped that the U.S. side will work with China in the same direction to advance international cooperation through bilateral constructive interactions, and promote world peace with bilateral strategic stability, so as to jointly explore a right way to get along in the new era based on mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win−win cooperation, and make new contributions to human peace and development.