Beijing, March 7. Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang today accused the US of only seeking to ‘contain’ China, accusing it of ‘creating crises’ and warned that its attitude could derail bilateral relations .
“We saw it in the recent episode of the balloons. They went to presumption of guilt, dramatized what was an accident, used force and caused a crisis. The United States is wrong about China”, Qin said during his first public press conference at the annual session of China’s Legislative Assembly (National People’s Congress).
During his appearance at the main political event of the year in the Asian country, the foreign minister said that Washington “has taken China as its main geopolitical rival and that it is not about competition. They try to contain China. It’s confrontation.”
Qin added that the United States “keeps saying you have to play by the rules, but if they try to bring down the other, it’s a bad faith confrontation.”
“They won’t get away with it,” he said.
“If they don’t step on the brakes and continue with this madness, they won’t be able to stop the train from derailing, and China strongly rejects that,” he said.
The diplomat urged Washington to have “an inclusive vision if they want to become great again” and stressed that they will not be able to “stop China’s footsteps on the road to modernization”.
“We hope the US administration will listen to its people, abandon this Cold War mentality and work with China in a way that both countries cooperate and benefit,” he said.
Relations between Beijing and Washington have deteriorated by leaps and bounds over the past year due to disputes such as the August visit to Taiwan by then-Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, the trade sanctions and technologies or the most recent crisis of “spy balloons”.
China’s Foreign Ministry recently released a report accusing the United States of “using multiple methods to maintain global supremacy”, which it considers “a global risk”. EFE
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