BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- As U.S. President Barack Obama finally fended off Republican challenger Mitt Romney in Tuesday's presidential race, it is hoped that the new Obama administration would set a more constructive tone in crafting its China policy.
For four years, China-U.S. relations, which Obama himself dubbed as the world's most important, has zigzagged forward.
On his watch, the U.S. government has sold a huge amount of arms to Taiwan, received the Dalai Lama at the White House, frequently stirred up trade disputes and currency spats with China, and blatantly meddled in China's territorial rows with its neighbors, each of which has effectively whittled down the two nations' mutual trust.
And during the year-long presidential campaign, both Obama and his GOP rival Romney put a lot of energy into discrediting China, unfairly calling Beijing a trade cheater, a currency manipulator, a U.S. job stealer and a rules breaker.
In fact, all these mud-slinging and trouble-making offenses against China have been around for years, and are essentially a product of Washington's uneasiness over China's three decades of rapid economic growth, as well as its lack of the most basic trust in China's determination to rise peacefully.
It is natural for the U.S., which is the world's largest economy, and a primary builder and beneficiary of the current international economic and political order, to have difficulty completely disarming its suspicions toward China, which is politically, economically and culturally different.
However, the U.S. should know nothing in the world remains forever unchanged, and that China will never abort its development objective simply because of Washington's unwarranted anxiety.
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