Wang Yi meets Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez

16:15, September 28, 2019

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  Wang Yi presides over foreign ministers’ meeting with Quartet of CELAC

  New York (People’s Daily) - Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosted the Seventh Dialogue of Foreign Ministers of China and the Quartet of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) at the UN headquarters in New York.Photo by Ma Delin, provided to Peoples DailyThe Latin American Communist Party’s rotating presidency, Bolivian Foreign Minister Diego Pary; the former rotating presidency, the representative of El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill; the designate rotating presidency, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard; and the rotating presidency of Caribbean Community, Saint Lucia’s Minister for External Affairs Sarah Flood Beaubrun, as well as Dominican Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas, Nicaragua’s Secretary of the Presidency Paul Oquist Kelley, and other representatives of the member states from the Latin American community participated.Given the current international situation and the fact that China, Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) countries are all developing countries, they share a wide range of common interests in safeguarding international fairness and justice, defending free trade and encouraging multilateralism, said Wang.Wang stated that China will join with Latin American and Caribbean countries in accommodating each other’s core interests and major concerns on the basis of equal footing, mutual benefit, and win-win results. China has no geopolitical considerations concerning Latin America and the Caribbean region and is willing to discuss and carry out trilateral, multilateral cooperation.Eying further cooperation in the next stage, Wang proposed four tasks with CELAC during the meeting.First, to jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative in high quality. Wang said China has competitive advantages in high-tech fields such as big data, artificial intelligence and 5G network. China, Latin American and Caribbean countries can prioritize the facilitation of Digital Silk Road and Cybe...

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  China not fazed by threats or pressure: Wang Yi

  (Photo: Xinhua)New York (People’s Daily) -- State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi says China would not stand by against the anti-trade headwind.Wang made the comment Friday while attending the general debate of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York.“Distancing ourselves from challenges and blaming others are not the solutions to issues brought by globalization. The lesson of the Great Depression in the last century still stays fresh in our mind. Escalating economic and trade friction by hiking additional tariffs will disturb the industrial and supply chain around the globe, hurt the multilateral trading system and the global economic and trade order, and even plunge the world economy into a recession trap,” he remarked.China insists on taking calm, rational, and cooperative approaches to solving the economic and trade friction and will show our utmost patience and goodwill. But when some players frequently go back on their word, ignore equal play and show an obvious lack of respect for the game rules, China will also take necessary countermeasures, defend our lawful rights and interests, and uphold international fairness and justice, he said.Wang said as a country with 5000 years of history, 1.4 billion hard-working and brave people, and a land mass of 9.6 million square kilometers, any threat is not threatening, and any pressure is not stressing for China.

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  China will never pursue hegemony: Wang Yi to UN

  Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C) addresses the General Debate of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, on September 27, 2019. (Photo: Xinhua)China will never pursue hegemony or seek expansion and the country will remain committed to the basic principles of sovereign equality and non-interference in other countries internal affairs, said Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi.Wang delivered a speech on Friday at the General Debate of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, covering a wide range of issues from development to protectionism and unilateralism, global peace and justice and climate change, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday."During the previous 70 years, we Chinese have changed our destiny through tireless efforts," Wang said, noting that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China.On the diplomatic front, China has traversed tests and challenges and "has remained true to our original purpose," he said.China is guided by the principle of independence, believes in equality among nations, stands for justice and pursues mutually beneficial cooperation, noted the top diplomat.China will insist on seeking an independent foreign policy of peace, Wang said, adding that peaceful development, which has long been incorporated in Chinas Constitution, is the cornerstone of Chinas foreign policy. "We will neither submit ourselves to others nor coerce others into submission."The global interaction comes at a time when the world needs to take a more precise and objective view on China thanks to the increased influence of the country, Li Haidong, a professor with the Institute of International Relations at the China Foreign Affairs University, told the Global Times on Saturday.Wangs speech served to reveal that Chinas growth will bring opportunities to other cou...