His remarks came after a top-level US official last month described the rivalry between China and the US as 'a fight with a really different civilisation and a different ideology'.
BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping declared Wednesday there was "no clash" of civilisations and denounced racial supremacy as "stupid" amid tensions with the United States and concerns over Beijing's rising global power.
"Thinking that one's own race and culture are superior, and insisting on transforming or even replacing other civilisations is stupid in its understanding and disastrous in practice," Xi said at the opening ceremony of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilisations in Beijing. On Monday, China retaliated with an announcement that it would raise tariffs on $60 billion worth of US goods from 1 June.
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