US, China urged to manage competition – World – Chinadaily.com.cn

[PhotoIC] Washington and Beijing need to learn how to coexist and collectively address issues of common interest, even though the Biden administration has increasingly characterized relations between the United States and China as “strategic competition”, a panel of experts said on Wednesday. “We need to avoid the ‘Thucydides Trap’ — we need to avoid this premise that an ascending power and a status quo power must inevitably come to conflict; we need to learn how to coexist,” retired Lieutenant General Charles W. Hooper, a former US defense attache to China, said during a webinar sponsored by the Chicago Council on…