Beijing, China:
Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi mentioned on Monday the United States and China could work collectively on problems like climate adjust and the coronavirus pandemic if they repaired their broken bilateral partnership.
Wang, a Chinese state councillor and foreign minister, mentioned Beijing stood prepared to reopen constructive dialogue with Washington soon after relations involving the two nations sank to their lowest in decades beneath former president Donald Trump.
Wang referred to as on Washington to eliminate tariffs on Chinese goods and abandon what he mentioned was an irrational suppression of the Chinese tech sector, measures he mentioned would produce the “necessary conditions” for cooperation.
Before Wang spoke at a forum sponsored by the foreign ministry, officials played footage of the “ping-pong diplomacy” of 1972 when an exchange of table tennis players cleared the way for then U.S. President Richard Nixon to stop by China.
Wang urged Washington to respect China’s core interests, quit “smearing” the ruling Communist Party, quit interfering in Beijing’s internal affairs and quit “conniving” with separatist forces for Taiwan’s independence.
“Over the past few years, the United States basically cut off bilateral dialogue at all levels,” Wang mentioned in ready remarks translated into English.
“We stand ready to have candid communication with the U.S. side, and engage in dialogues aimed at solving problems.”
Wang pointed to a current get in touch with involving Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden as a positive step.
Washington and Beijing have clashed on a number of fronts like trade, accusations of human rights crimes against the Uighur Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang area and Beijing’s territorial claims in the sources-wealthy South China Sea.
The Biden administration has, having said that, signalled it will keep stress on Beijing. Biden has voiced concern about Beijing’s “coercive and unfair” trade practices and endorsed of a Trump administration determination that China has committed genocide in Xinjiang.
However, Biden has also pledged to take a more multilateral strategy and is keen to cooperate with Beijing on problems like climate adjust and persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
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