Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held an hour-and-a-half press conference on Thursday, outlining the country’s biggest foreign policy concerns. This includes the assertion that the United States is “obsessed with suppressing China” and other necessary things. This is to protect “trust” by maintaining policies that are pro-China.
Wang spoke about the annual “Two Meetings” of China’s national legislative bodies, the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, to advance the goals of the Communist Party of China. I gave a lecture. (Communist Party of China). The National People’s Congress is the country’s most powerful legislative body, a rubber-stamp organization completely controlled by dictator Xi Jinping. The CPPCC is an “advisory” body, meaning it has no law-making power, and serves as a forum for pro-regime elites to gain political office with little or no effort in governance. There are many. Mr. Xi has allowed several people with ties to organized crime to take seats in the CPPCC.
Mr. Wang is China’s most powerful diplomat, concurrently serving as Foreign Minister and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee. Wang won the foreign minister position in the summer of 2023 after the mysterious purge of his predecessor, Qin Gang.
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Foreign Minister’s large-scale press conference touched on several sensitive issues, including the continued threat of Islamic extremist terrorism against Israel, Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, and China’s false sovereignty claims over the state of Taiwan. But Mr Wang devoted a significant portion of his remarks to relations with the US, arguing that “peaceful coexistence is fundamental” and that the US needed to do more to embrace “win-win cooperation”. did.
“Mutual respect is a prerequisite, because interaction can only be sustained if differences in social and political systems are respected and recognized,” Wang Yi said, according to a source. translation According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Wang acknowledged that there had been “some improvement” in bilateral relations since dictator Xi Jinping met with US President Joe Biden in California in November, but he acknowledged that there was a potential He blamed “the United States’ misperception of China” for hindering friendly relations.
“The United States has devised various tactics to suppress China and continues to extend the unilateral sanctions list, which has reached an extraordinary level and reached an unfathomable absurdity,” Wang complained. He suggested that the United States would soon lose its “credibility” as a world power.
If the United States says one thing and does another, where is its credibility as a major power? If we feel uneasy every time we hear the word “China,” where is our confidence as a great power? If we only want the prosperity of our own country and deny the legitimate development of other countries, where is the international fairness? If China relentlessly monopolizes the high end of the value chain, keeping China at the low end, where is the fairness in competition?
“The challenge to the United States does not come from China, but from the United States itself. If the United States persists in suppressing China, it will ultimately harm itself,” Wang concluded. “We call on the United States to gain insight into the trends of the times, view China’s development objectively and rationally, interact with China proactively and realistically, and act to fulfill its commitments.”
The foreign minister asked what “damage” the United States would inflict on its country if it chose to address China’s human rights abuses, intellectual property theft, national security threats to the United States, and a host of other issues. It was not made clear whether that would be the case. He also cited legitimate complaints the United States has against China, including the discovery of Chinese “police stations” operating illegally on U.S. soil to persecute anti-communist dissidents within the United States. I didn’t even mention it. The negative impact of China’s Tiktok on American society. China’s role in the ongoing fentanyl crisis. and the incursion into U.S. territory by Chinese spy balloons in 2023.
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China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times credited Mr. Wang for placing the blame for the discord between the US and China squarely at the feet of Washington.
“Many of the existing conflicts in international affairs are related to the United States’ incorrect foreign perception,” said one lawmaker. Global Times‘s usual “expert” commentator Lee Haidong told the outlet.
Biden did not refute Wang’s accusations in Thursday night’s State of the Union address. But his brief mention of China included a nod to wanting to avoid “conflict” with China, and minimal content about future policy toward America’s most dire national security threats. there were.
“We stand up against China’s unfair economic practices. And we stand up for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. I revitalized our partnerships and alliances in the Pacific. America’s cutting-edge technology from being used in Chinese weapons,” Biden said. claimed, without elaborating. “We want competition with China, but we don’t want conflict. And we are in a stronger position to win the 21st century competition with China and other countries.”
“We are happy to see a confident and open America enjoying prosperity,” China’s Foreign Ministry declared in response to questions about the State of the Union address at a regular press conference. Briefing session on friday.
“The United States needs to work together with China in the same direction, find the right way for major countries to get along with each other, and advance the steady, healthy and sustainable growth of bilateral relations,” Mao Ning said. demanded.
