This epidemic is a sobering reminder that mankind faces no shortage of unexpected common challenges, and that cooperation is urgently needed among members of the international community.

China and the United States, as two major countries on the world stage, shoulder a special responsibility to jointly nurture their economic partnership and help solve the world's most pressing priorities, such as climate change and other issues concerning the future wellbeing of humanity.

"What a culmination if, forty years later, the United States and China could merge their efforts not to shake the world, but to build it," wrote Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. secretary of state and pioneer in renormalizing China-U.S. relations, in his book "On China."

The first 40 years since Beijing and Washington officially established diplomatic ties on Jan. 1, 1979 demonstrated that when the two countries work together, they can do great good for their people and the world as a whole.

As what is arguably the most important bilateral relationship in today's world marches into the second 40 years, the two countries have in their hands an ample chance to do even greater good for all.

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