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BEIJING, June 12-- China said Wednesday that advocating the decoupling of China and the United States, which was played up by a handful of people in the U.S., is extremely dangerous and irresponsible. Foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang made the remarks at a press conference in response to a question regarding China-U.S. economic and trade relations. The decoupling of China and the U.S. was advocated by a handful of people in the U.S. sticking to the Cold War mentality and zero-sum game, Geng said. Such a view is against the essence of China-U.S. relations featuring cooperation and win-win results, ignores the public opinion on the friendly and close exchanges between the two countries, and goes against the trend of the times and is bound to fail, Geng said. He said since the establishment of diplomatic relations 40 years ago, China and the United States have developed highly complementary and deeply integrated interest structure and mutually beneficial relations. "Both countries have become each other's largest trading partner and important investment destinations," said Geng, adding that almost all major U.S. companies have businesses in China, and all states of the U.S. engage in cooperation with China. The two countries have established 50 sister province/state relations and 227 sister-city relations, according to Geng. "The U.S. has gained huge interests from China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation," said Geng, adding that in the year 2017, the sales revenue and profits of U.S.-funded firms in China exceeded 700 billion U.S. dollars and 50 billion dollars, respectively. | 
