By Simina Mistreanu
Beijing (AP) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China will continue to fight back to the “arbitrary prices” in the United States and accused Washington of “meeting the good with evil” at a press conference on Friday on the touch of the country’s annual parliamentary session.
Wang said China’s efforts to help the United States contain its fentanyl crisis have encountered punitive prices, which have endeavored.
“No country should fantasize that it can remove China and maintain a good relationship with China at the same time,” said Wang. “Such two -sided acts are not good for the stability of bilateral relations or to build mutual trust.”
The United States has carried out tasks against China this week as well as Canada and Mexico for fetanyl smuggling charges, which countries have called unjustified. China argues that it has done a lot to curb exports of industrial chemicals used to make fentanyl in recent years, and that the consumption of illegal drugs in the United States is a domestic problem.
The functions were the last in a series of reprisal rates in Washington and Beijing have won since the return of US President Donald Trump in January. The United States has raised flat prices on all Chinese imports at 20%, while Beijing ATS with 15% additional rights to American imports, including chicken, pork, soybeans and beef, and extended controls of the manufacture of key American companies.
The annual press conference of the Minister of Foreign Affairs is the only opportunity on which Wang speaks to the Chinese and foreign media on a range of subjects. Friday’s event was dominated by questions about China’s links with the United States, as well as other subjects such as regional conflicts and collaborations within the world South.
With regard to the Trump administration policy to safeguard American interests above international cooperation, Wang said that such an approach, if it was adopted by all the countries of the world, would lead to the “jungle law”.
“Small weak countries will be burned first, and the international order and the rules will be subject to a serious shock,” said Wang. “Large countries should start their international obligations … and not try to take advantage and intimidate the weak.”
On the war of Ukraine, Wang reiterated China’s position to support conflict resolution through political negotiations. Wang said that with hindsight, the Ukrainian conflict “could have been avoided”.
“All parties should learn something about the crisis,” he said. “Among many other things, security should be mutual and equal, and no country should strengthen its security on another insecurity.”
Wang stressed that China-Russia relations are as strong as ever despite recent consultations between the United States and Russia to end the Ukraine War. He said Beijing and Moscow are planning joint celebrations this year marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
In Taiwan, the island democracy of China affirms its own, Wang said that “Taiwan has never been a country and will never be a country in the future”.
“The defense of Taiwan’s independence divides the country, supporting Taiwan’s independence interferes in the internal affairs of China, and accomplices for the independence of Taiwan sape the stability of the Taiwan Strait,” he said.
Those who support Taiwan’s independence “only play with fire and will burn themselves,” said Wang.
Asked about Trump’s plan to take control of Gaza and reinstall the Palestinians in neighboring countries, Wang said that Gaza belonged to the Palestinians and that any forced change in the status of the territory would trigger new turbulence. He said China supported the Peace Plan put forward by Egypt and other Arab countries and reiterated Beijing’s support for a two -state solution for Palestine and Israel.
“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict takes place again and again simply because the two-state solution is only half carried out,” said Wang. “The state of Israel has long been a reality, but Palestine’s state is still out of reach.”
The researcher of Associated Press Yu Bing and Video producer Olivia Zhang contributed to this report.
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