Four days before its communist government's 70th birthday, China condemns protectionism and unilateralism, takes shots at U.S. economic policies, and pronounces itself 'a country that is open and on the move,' reports anthonyted at the U.N.
Visitors take photos with their smart phones of an installation depicting a heart shape Chinese national flag in Shanghai, China, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. China will mark its 70th anniversary on Oct. 1, 2019.
The current chapter for China, a culture thousands of years old, began on Oct. 1, 1949 when Mao Zedong stood at a microphone atop Tiananmen Square in Beijing and declared a new government in the nation his communist guerrillas took from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists after a civil war. “Erecting walls will not resolve global challenges, and blaming others for one’s own problems does not work,” he said, in a reference likely aimed at the United States. “Tariffs and provocation of trade disputes, which upset global industrial and supply chains, serve to undermine the multilateral trading regime and global economic and trade order. They may even plunge the world into recession.”China is offering to narrow a trade surplus with the United States by purchasing more American exports.
Not unexpectedly, Wang cited growth and development as the engines behind China’s successes thus far. “Development,” he said, “is the master key to solving all problems.” Overall, however, his speech seemed almost a position paper for China at age 70. It cast the country under Xi as a defender of peace and justice, an advocate of the principle of independence and a committed multilateralist — all assertions that the government’s adversaries have taken issue with.
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