Conflict with China could be dangerous for world

Obama’s administeration warned Mr. Trump

The Obama administration has warned the incoming Donald Trumpadministration that a conflict with China could be dangerous and there is nothing that the U.S could achieve by trying to reopen settled issues with Beijing.“..it’s dangerous,” Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications for Mr. Obama, told a group of journalists on Tuesday at Washington. On Mr. Trump’s remarks that he might reopen the ‘one China’ policy of the U.S, he said, “China’s not going to negotiate anything. So I’m not sure what is accomplished by saying that – by pursuing an approach where you seek to reopen,” adding that the U.S.-China as “the most important bilateral relationship in the world.”

According to ‘The Hindu’ The key adviser to Mr. Obama said the outgoing administration has pursued a constructive relationship with China. “Most of our signature foreign policy initiatives and achievements were built in part on U.S.-Chinese cooperation,” he said, naming the Paris climate agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, and the management of the global economic crisis in 2009 as examples. He said the U.S. must push back against China on issues such as its aggressive moves in the South China Sea, but “there’s just much more to be gained from pursuing cooperation when we can with China rather than seeing it as an adversary.”“I think that’d be very dangerous for everyone – for the whole world, frankly,” the official said.