Significance of amity

In the wake of his reply letter to the Washington state friends, Xi made a separate reply last week to a letter from John Easterbrook, grandson of the late US Army General Joseph Stilwell. This was the second letter within a month in which Xi replied to people in the US. In both letters, he stressed the significance of amity between the two peoples for state-to-state relations.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the two letters of reply fully demonstrate the great importance Xi attaches to the promotion of the communication between the two peoples.

Noting that exchanges at the people-to-people level between the two countries have resumed after the pandemic, Mao told a regular news conference on Monday that this serves the will of the people, the general trend of the times and the fundamental interests of the two countries and the two peoples.