A high-level Chinese delegation is in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It's there for commemorative activities for the 70th anniversary of the armistice in the Korean War. Our reporter Sun Tianyuan has the story from Dandong. 

SUN TIANYUAN, Dandong, Liaoning Province "I'm in the Chinese border town of Dandong. Behind me is the famous Yalu River Broken Bridge. It was once a means of entry into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, until US bombers blew it up during the Korean War.

In October 1950, when the flames of the war spread to the Chinese border, China decided to join what it called 'the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea' at the request of the DPRK to push back US-led forces.

After three years of bloody battles, in 1953, on this very day, (July 27), a ceasefire agreement was signed. The Korean War, dubbed the first 'hot' war of the Cold War, finally came to an end.

70 years on, the war is now history, like water under the bridge. Yet the Cold War mentality is still alive and well in Washington.

Even after the Soviet Union was gone for more than three decades, the US is still leading NATO, a product of the Cold War. The pact keeps expanding its power across borders and eventually became a trigger which led to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Now NATO is expanding eastward into the Asia-Pacific region with plans to open a liaison office in Japan.

In fact, the US military presence is almost everywhere in the world. There are about 750 US military bases across 80 countries and regions overseas. While the US military industrial complex is feeding on wars and conflicts it started across the world, Washington has repeatedly portrayed other countries, such as China, as a global and regional threat.

The US Congress alone has introduced hundreds of anti-China bills or acts in recent years to contain China's development, especially in trade, energy and technology. It has also put thousands of Chinese entities and inpiduals on sanction lists.

This kind of antagonism has become a guiding thought for an increasing number of US policy-makers in dealing with global affairs. And it is precisely what's making the world today more unstable.

Perhaps instead of starting a new Cold War, those trapped in a binary logic of 'friend or foe', 'good or evil', should reflect on themselves and stop using ideology and their own values as a tool to suppress others, or to serve the interests of warmongers and the 'one percent' under the guise of democracy."