Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has stressed that cooperation was needed to confront global challenges.
Speaking at the joint address after meeting his Slovenian counterpart Tanja Fajon in Ljubljana he said, “Europe should be friends rather than rivals and cooperation is needed to confront global challenges.”
Hitting out at the US over its proposal that NATO nations should impose 50 to 100 per cent tariffs on China, he said that China encourages peace talks.
“China does not participate in or plan wars, and what China does is to encourage peace talk and promote political settlement of hotspot issues through dialogue,” Yi said.
He also gave a call to promote multilateralism, strengthen multilateral mechanisms, and jointly safeguard the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. He highlighted that in the present times, the international situation is characterised by intertwined chaos and continuous conflicts.
“Making the right choices amid the greatest changes in a century demonstrates the responsibilities that both sides should fulfill towards history and the people,” Wang Yi said, as reported by Global Times.
“I believe that this, plus NATO, as a group, placing 50 per cent to 100 per cent Tariffs On China, to be fully withdrawn after the war with Russia and Ukraine is ended, will also be of great help in ending this deadly, but ridiculous, war,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Previously, Trump had accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of “conspiring against” the United States. The accusation followed China’s largest-ever military parade held on September 3, which North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin attended.
