BEIJING (AP) \u2014 China\u2019s foreign minister accused the U.S. on Thursday of devising tactics to suppress China\u2019s rise and criticized the Biden administration for\u00a0adding more Chinese companies\u00a0to its sanctions lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wang Yi, speaking to media during the annual meeting of China\u2019s legislature, said China\u2019s relations with the U.S. have improved since Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden\u00a0met in November, but America has not fulfilled its promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf the U.S. always says one thing and does another, where is its credibility as a major power? If the U.S. gets nervous and anxious when it hears the word \u2018China,\u2019 where is its confidence as a major power?\u201d he said. \u201cIf the U.S. is obsessed with suppressing China, it will eventually harm itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wang also demanded that members of the U.N. Security Council stop blocking Palestine from becoming a member of the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 70-year-old veteran diplomat, who has earned Xi\u2019s trust, returned to the foreign minister\u2019s post last summer after his successor, Qin Gang, was\u00a0abruptly dismissed\u00a0without explanation after a half year on the job. Wang is also the ruling Communist Party\u2019s top foreign affairs official, a more senior position that he moved to when Qin became foreign minister at the end of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Analysts had speculated the Communist Party might use the\u00a0weeklong meeting\u00a0of the National People\u2019s Congress to name a new foreign minister, but that appeared off the table after an agenda released on the eve of the opening session did not include personnel changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China\u2019s U.N. ambassador, Zhang Jun, said during a Security Council debate in January that China supports\u00a0Palestine\u00a0becoming a full member as soon as possible, as a first step toward creating a Palestinian state, according to Chinese media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wang called Thursday for a major international conference to draw up a roadmap and timetable for a two-state solution. \u201cWe support Palestine becoming a full member of the United Nations and call on individual members of the Security Council not to set obstacles for this any more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He accused the United States, without mentioning it by name, of stirring up trouble in Taiwan and the\u00a0South China Sea. China says that self-governing Taiwan is part of China and should be under its control, and it claims a wide swath of the South China Sea, putting it at odds with the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Philippines and the U.S. have accused China of aggressive tactics in trying to block Philippines ships from reaching reefs and other outcroppings that both sides claim, most recently in\u00a0a collision\u00a0between coast guard vessels of both countries this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor unreasonable provocations, we will take just countermeasures,\u201d Wang said. \u201cWe also advise certain countries outside the region not to stir up trouble, choose sides, and not to become disruptors and troublemakers in the South China Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said countries that insist on maintaining official ties with Taiwan are interfering in China\u2019s domestic affairs. Most countries, including the United States, don\u2019t have diplomatic ties with Taiwan, but China objects to\u00a0visits by U.S. lawmakers\u00a0to the island and U.S. sales of military equipment for its defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China will continue to work for peaceful reunification with Taiwan, Wang said, but warned that anyone who supports independence for Taiwan would pay a price. Most Taiwanese prefer to remain separate from China without antagonizing it. They fear Chinese rule could endanger their freedoms and democracy, particularly after China\u2019s\u00a0crackdown on Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur bottom line is also very clear,\u201d Wang said. \u201cThat is Taiwan will never be allowed to split from the motherland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wang praised China\u2019s growing ties with Russia, noting that trade between the two reached $240 billion last year, beating a target to hit $200 billion by the end of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. and EU say that China is giving Russia an economic lifeline at a time when they are trying to pressure its government with\u00a0sanctions\u00a0over its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which sparked\u00a0a devastating war\u00a0that has continued for more than two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRussian natural gas has entered thousands of households in China, and Chinese cars are driving in the streets of Russia, which fully demonstrates the strong resilience and broad prospects of mutually beneficial cooperation,\u201d Wang said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poland\u2019s deputy foreign minister, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, told a Chinese diplomat the country should not provide political, economic and military support to Russia, a Polish government statement said. Bartoszewski made the comment at a meeting on Wednesday with a Chinese diplomatic envoy, Li Hui, who is is visiting several European countries this week for talks on the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. and EU\u00a0expanded sanctions\u00a0on companies and individuals from China and several other countries two weeks ago for allegedly aiding Russia\u2019s war effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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