United States President Barack Obama released a statement assuring that his country's good relationship with India will not threaten China and that the latter's peaceful economic rise is among his administration's best interests.

Obama's statement comes in the wake of China's reaction to his three-day visit to India. China previously said the ties between New Delhi and Washington are "superficial" and that Obama was more of a symbolic appointment rather than pragmatic.

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In a report, Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua said: "After all, only one year ago, U.S. diplomats were expelled from New Delhi amid widespread public outrage over the treatment of an Indian diplomat in New York and Narendra Modi, India's Prime Minister and then chief minister of Gujarat, was still banned from entering the United States."

Obama expressed his surprise at China's reaction and told CNN that Beijing needs not be threatened by the improving U.S.-India relationship. He also noted that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping have had successful talks when meetings were held back in November last year.

The U.S. president said he believes that there is a win-win formula for all the countries as there is a set of rules and standards that are being followed in order to lift the prosperity of their own people. This was the gist of his discussion with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that they both believe countries need to work with each other than against each other, said Obama.

"What's dangerous for us is a destabilized and impoverished and disintegrating China. It's much better for us if China is doing well," the American leader stated. "I care deeply about China's success. I want to make sure that we continue to maintain a constructive relationship."

However, he noted that China has "bullied" smaller countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines in a maritime dispute. He added that the country should not manipulate their currencies in order to achieve trading favors.

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