by Wu Xiaoling, Ye Zaiqi
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. scholar said Tuesday that China's peaceful development will bring stability to the rest of the world, which provides opportunities for China and the United States to work jointly in addressing global issues.
In a written interview sent to Xinhua Tuesday, Michael Steger, president of the Bay Area Chapter of the International Schiller Institute, a global political and economic think tank with headquarters in Germany and the United States, said the extensive campaign of reforms in China will have a "massive" impact on the world.
Referring to the influence of China on the sustainable growth of the world economy, Steger said, "China's impact is massive. Most important is the stability it provides."
Referring to the recent remarks of Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai in New York on the so-called Thucydides trap, he said Beijing does not intend to surpass Washington as the leading world power, nor does it believe that conflict is inevitable, rather China intends to help build a new system of collaboration with the United States.
He said that the Chinese government have accomplished great success over the last five years, particularly with its space program such as the successful Long March Rockets and the lunar Chang'e program, which have been world success stories.
There is also the leading fusion experiment, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), the world first experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor developed by China in 2006, which truly represents the energy of the future, Steger said.
"Over the next five years, with increased collaboration with the U.S. in areas of space exploration and fusion research and development, I truly believe we can achieve a new global economic standard," he said.
As for broader U.S.-China collaboration, he said that the new U.S. administration under President Donald Trump has shown many positive signs in this regard.
He believes that Trump understands that the relationship with China is a top priority.
"If President Trump is given the freedom to move in the direction he thinks best, which is based on his speeches, then we will have a new, grand potential for the U.S. and China cooperation," he noted.
Trump's foreseeable trip to China represents a possible major turning point, and all true patriots of humanity should help encourage President Trump to embrace the development orientation of China, Asia, and the Belt and Road Initiative, Steger said.
Most Americans fully embrace China's idea of the Belt and Road Initiative, he said, citing some U.S. state governments such as California, Washington, Alaska, Michigan and Iowa, which have expressed or shown interest in and support for the initiative.
If the United States successfully pursues a policy that achieves a real economic recovery in the country, both China and the United States would share a similar course of transcontinental development, ranging from the ambitious space programs to the implementation of commercial fusion power, which will make electricity essentially free for all mankind, he said.
The International Schiller Institute is one of the primary organizations of the LaRouche movement, founded by American political activist Lyndon LaRouche, and becomes a political and cultural network advocating the development of major economic infrastructure projects on a global scale.
It also calls for a reform of the world financial system to encourage investment in the physical economy and suppress financial speculation.
