BEIJING: Criticising US President Donald Trump's decision to label Beijing a strategic rival, China has called on Washington to "abandon a Cold War mentality" and accept its rise.
According to the official Xinhua Agency, Trump's decision reflects a "victory of hardliners" in his administration. It warned US-Chinese economic relations were likely to face "even more pressure and challenges."
The Xinhua quoted Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman, Hua Chunying as saying, "We urge the United States to stop deliberately distorting China's strategic intentions and abandon a Cold War mentality. Otherwise it will injure others and damage itself."
The spokeswoman said that China had the right to decide its own development path.
Responding to the newly released U.S. national security strategy, the Chinese embassy spokesperson in Washington Monday had said China will always remain committed to world peace, global development and international order.
Earlier on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the national security strategy, which labeled China and Russia as Washington's "competitors" and "rival powers" seeking to undermine US national interests on all fronts.
The Chinese spokesperson said peace and development are the theme of the present times and the common aspirations of all. Any effort against this would be inappropriate and end up being discarded by the times.
President Donald Trump´s first "National Security Strategy" has pilloried China and Russia as "revisionist powers" bent on rolling back American interests and values, according to the hard-hitting text released Monday.
"China and Russia want to shape a world antithetical to US values and interests," the strategy document states, using remarkably biting language.
"China seeks to displace the United States in the Indo-Pacific region, expand the reaches of its state-driven economic model, and reorder the region in its favor," according to the text.
"Russia seeks to restore its great power status and establish spheres of influence near its borders."
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