Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned of “catastrophic consequences” unless the US changes its attitude towards China.
China warned Tuesday that the US must change its “distorted” attitude towards the country or face “conflict and confrontation” — in the latest escalation as relations between Washington and Beijing are at their lowest point in decades.
Relations between the two nations have been tense for years over Taiwan’s status as a self-governing democracy, trade issues, and more recently the war in Ukraine — but they took a nosedive last month after theSecretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a planned visit to Beijing in the wake of the balloon incident. The unmanned aircraft and its payload, including electronics and optics, have been recovered from the ocean floor and are being analyzed by the FBI.
“Such competition is a reckless gamble, with the stakes being the fundamental interests of the two peoples and even the future of humanity.”According to China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang, Washington’s policy on the Asian country has “entirely deviated from the rational and sound track.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to Qin’s comments by reiterating Russia’s position that the US was driving the war in Ukraine, saying that China’s foreign minister was joking when he spoke of the “invisible hand.” China’s claims of neutrality in the conflict have come under fire after Beijing struck a “no-limits friendship” with Russia just weeks before it attacked Ukraine, and China has declined to condemn the invasion — or even call it that — and failed to name Russia as the aggressor.
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