Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi (王毅) yesterday accused the US of devising tactics to suppress China’s rise and clarified Beijing’s stance regarding Taiwan.
Wang, speaking to media during the annual meeting of China’s legislature, said that Beijing’s relations with the US have improved since Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) and US President Joe Biden met in November last year, but Washington has not fulfilled its promises.
“If the US always says one thing and does another, where is its credibility as a major power? If the US gets nervous and anxious when it hears the word ‘China,’ where is its confidence as a major power?” he said.
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“If the US is obsessed with suppressing China, it will eventually harm itself,” he added.
He accused the US, without mentioning it by name, of stirring up trouble in Taiwan and the South China Sea.
Countries that insist on maintaining official ties with Taiwan are interfering in China’s domestic affairs, he said.
China would continue to work for “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan, Wang said, but warned that anyone who supports independence for Taiwan would pay a price.
“Our bottom line is also very clear,” Wang said. “That is Taiwan will never be allowed to split from the motherland.”
“For unreasonable provocations, we will take just countermeasures,” Wang said. “We also advise certain countries outside the region not to stir up trouble, choose sides, and not to become disruptors and troublemakers in the South China Sea.”
Wang also demanded that members of the UN Security Council stop blocking Palestine from becoming a member of the UN.
He called for a major international conference to draw up a roadmap and timetable for a “two-state solution.”
“We support Palestine becoming a full member of the United Nations and call on individual members of the Security Council not to set obstacles for this any more,” he said.
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