On this day, 29 years ago, on December 16, 1996 (November 6, 1996, the National Committee on U.S. -China Relations issued a report on the strategic direction of the U.S. -China. On December 16, 1996, Xinhua Agency reported: The National Committee on U.S. -China Relations recently issued a report stating that the United States and China should strengthen mutual understanding and establish long-term and stable cooperative relations. The 30-page report, entitled "The United States and China Should Move towards Strategic Understanding," was written based on the results of surveys conducted by former U.S. Defense Secretary Schlesinger and some four-star generals and well-known scholars to Beijing, Nanjing, Taipei, Hong Kong and other places in China in August and September 1996. The report believes that the United States and China should move forward in the two broad areas of managing security relations and moving towards strategic understanding in order to seize the current opportunities and promote the development of bilateral relations. The report believes that the United States and China should raise dialogue to a strategic level; To promote this dialogue, high-level leaders of both sides should meet frequently, and the two countries should also engage in high-level military contacts and seek to expand military and national security exchanges and exchanges in various fields. In addition, both sides should also actively encourage important people-to-people exchanges that can have an impact on security policies, especially contacts between members of the U.S. Congress and deputies to the National People's Congress of China. The report pointed out that the central issue to be solved at present is the general characteristics of the relationship between the two countries, especially the lack of mutual trust and sense of common interests. Therefore, strategic dialogue between the two sides will help restore mutual trust and a sense of common interests. The report criticizes U.S. policies for relying too much on economic and technical sanctions, threatening the economic relations that both sides want to strengthen and causing China to seek other alternative partners. The report pointed out that there are many remarks in the U.S. news media about "containing"(China), but "containing" is an approach that is neither feasible (no ally will follow) nor in line with (the United States) needs. The report believes that the United States should adhere to the "one China" policy and properly handle its policy towards Taiwan, otherwise it will be impossible to achieve regional stability. The report concluded that the interests of the people of the United States and China in U.S. -China relations are huge, and both sides now have the opportunity to put this relationship on the best possible basis. However, to achieve this, strategic understanding between both sides is crucial, and reaching an understanding is not easy. In the process of seeking mutual strategic understanding, any other issue could cause a major setback in the process, which requires sustained attention at the highest levels of the two countries to their overall relationship.