'China threat' rhetoric fuels uncertainty and instability

The Democratic members of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a report recently alleging that China is pursuing a long-term strategy to replace the US as the global superpower.

It calls for a whole-of-government effort to counter what it describes as China's expanding global influence.

This report is steeped in Cold War mentality and outdated zero-sum thinking. It distorts China's development strategy and misinterprets the country's relations with the world. Whether motivated by domestic politics or strategic anxiety, such rhetoric only fuels uncertainty and instability in the international community, rather than promoting global cooperation.