US stalling China’s growth, charges Wang
BEIJING: China’s foreign minister accused the US on Thursday of devising tactics to suppress China’s rise and criticised the Biden administration for adding more Chinese companies to its sanctions lists.
Wang Yi, speaking to media during the annual meeting of China’s legislature, said China’s relations with the US have improved since Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden met in November, but America 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. “If the US is obsessed with suppressing China, it will eventually harm itself.” Wang also demanded that members of the UN Security Council stop blocking Palestine from becoming a member of the United Nations.
The 70-year-old veteran diplomat, who has earned Xi’s trust, returned to the foreign minister’s post last summer after his successor, Qin Gang, was abruptly dismissed without explanation after a half year on the job. Wang is also the ruling Communist Party’s top foreign affairs official, a more senior position. Analysts had speculated the Communist Party might use the weeklong meeting of the National People’s Congress to name a new foreign minister, but that appeared off the table after an agenda released on the eve of the opening session did not include personnel changes.
China’s UN ambassador, Zhang Jun, said during a Security Council debate in January that China supports Palestine becoming a full member as soon as possible, as a first step toward creating a Palestinian state, according to Chinese media reports.