China warns US not to continue 'going down the wrong path'
(Baonghean.vn)- If the US continues to "go the wrong way" in its policy towards China, it will lead to confrontation, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang declared at his annual press conference on March 7.
"If the US does not stop and continues on the wrong track, no barrier will be able to prevent it from derailing and overturning, which will inevitably lead to confrontation and conflict," Qin said. According to him, the US often talks about the need to comply with the rules, but it is competing unfairly. "Imagine two athletes competing in an Olympic race, but one of them, instead of focusing on competing with all his might, always tries to trip the other... That is not healthy competition, but malicious confrontation and breaking the rules," he said.
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| The Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photo: AP |
Such competition is a "reckless adventure, in which the fundamental interests of the two peoples and even the future of all mankind are put at extreme risk," Mr. Qin Gang stressed. "China firmly opposes it," he said. The Chinese diplomat also noted that pressuring and containing China cannot make the US "great again" nor can it stop China's rise.
In addition, Mr. Qin Gang affirmed that the US Indo-Pacific strategy is essentially an effort to shape a NATO version in the Asia-Pacific region. "Although the US Indo-Pacific strategy promotes freedom and openness, in reality it gathers closed groups, exclusive groups, using the excuse of protecting regional security but in fact inciting confrontation, planning to organize an Asia-Pacific version of NATO" - Mr. Qin Gang said.
The diplomat stressed that the goal of the US Indo-Pacific strategy is to contain China, which is “doomed to fail”. According to him, the Asia-Pacific region must be a stage for mutually beneficial cooperation, not a chessboard of geopolitical confrontation. “A Cold War should not start in Asia, and a Ukraine-style crisis should never happen again in our region,” Mr. Qin Gang added./.