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 brake and continues to go the wrong way, no barrier will be able to prevent (the train) from derailing and overturning, which will definitely lead to confrontation and conflict," Qin said. According to him, the US often talks about the need to abide by the rules, but it is competing unfairly. "Imagine two athletes competing in an Olympic race, but instead of focusing on the competition, one of them 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 |
Qin Gang stressed that 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." "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 actually 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 for geopolitical confrontation. “The Cold War should not start in Asia, and a Ukraine-style crisis should never happen again in our region,” Qin Gang added./.