China and US stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation: Chinese FM

President Xi Jinping has congratulated President-Elect of the US Donald Trump, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning at a regular press conference on Thursday.

Mao said President Xi Jinping pointed out that history tells us that both China and the US stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation. A China-US relationship with stable, healthy and sus-tainable development serves the common interests of the two countries and meets the expectations of the international community, Mao added.

Hope the two sides will work in the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, to enhance dialogue and communication, properly manage differences and expand mu-tually beneficial cooperation, and to find the right way for China and the US to get along with each other in the new era to the benefit of the two countries and the world, Mao said.

According to the Xinhua News Agency, President Xi on Thursday extended congratulations to Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States, urging the two countries to find the right way to get along in the new era.

Xi called for the two countries to strengthen dialogue and communication, properly manage differences, and expand mutually beneficial cooperation, Xinhua reported.

On Wednesday, a spokesperson for Chinese Foreign Ministry said that China respects the choice of the American people and congratulates Mr. Trump on being elected as president of the US.