China is willing to work with the United States on a G7-led Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative it announced last June, supposedly to help developing countries meet infrastructure, and welcomes Washington to join its Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Feb. 28. “We are also willing to consider coordinating with the U.S. ‘Build Back Better World’ initiative to provide the world with more high-quality public goods,” Wang said in a video message at an event for the 50th anniversary of the Shanghai Communiqué, which marked the normalizing of relations between United States and China. In addition to inviting America to participate in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), he also invited the United States to join the Global Development Initiative, proposed at the UN General Assembly by Chinese President Xi Jinping in September for all countries to work towards sustainable development.
Wang urged the United States to work with China in the Asia-Pacific to build a “family of openness, inclusiveness, innovation, growth, connectivity and win-win cooperation,” rather than turn the region into one of conflict and confrontation.
