There is a saying here in China recently,“we have two mirrors — one is the Soviet Union, the other is the US.”

Mirrors are for us to reflect what kind of mistakes they have made and what kind of traps there might be for us, so we won’t repeat their mistakes and won’t fall into those traps.

By the Soviet Union mirror, we have learned we need to keep reforming, keep opening up, keep a better balanced economic structure, keep serving the people, keep improving our governance, keep fighting on corruption, keep safeguarding our national sovereignty on all aspects including politics, finance, defence, territory, etc., keep enlarging our “friend circle” with more nations across the world……

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By the US mirror, we have learned, not to reach out to the whole world as a nasty world cop, instead, focusing on solving our own problems; not to bully the whole world, instead, to cooperate with whoever is willing to cooperate; not to put our national interests above all the rest of the world, instead, to respect others’ reasonable requirements and legal interests, and share profits with all the stakeholders; not to force our development mode, route and values onto any other country, and respect their own choices based on their own history, culture, tradition, etc.; not to shirk our responsibility as one of the major powers in the world, and offer whatever help we can offer to those in need, for example, masks and other PPEs, vaccines, etc. during the pademic……

We Chinese indeed believe in the faith of “Never forget why you started, and your mission can be accomplished,”especially when we have the two mirrors reminding us all alone the way.