China not a military threat to US – Collin Powell
Former US
Secretary of State, Colin Powell, on Thursday stressed the importance of
US-China cooperation and dismissed the assertion that China would be a
military threat to the US.
“I do not
think China will be a military threat. It is not in their interest to be
a military threat to the US,” Powell said in a lecture at the Library
of Congress in Washington.
He encouraged the US to work with China, saying such cooperation would not result in a military conflict.
The former
top diplomat said China’s economic development in recent decades was
“astonishing,” pointing out that China is making efforts to invest in
its future.
“The US has to have a proper relationship with China,” Powell said.
Another
speaker of the lecture, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
shared Powell’s
views on the importance of US-China ties.
Albright
said there was never a time the two major powers had been so dependent
on each other and their economies so intertwined.
“The
cooperation part of US-China relations is very important,” said
Albright, emphasising that it is the essential relationship.
At the invitation of US President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping would pay a State visit to the US in September.
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