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‘Sanctions mean chaos’: China’s foreign minister echoes Xi Jinping’s ‘transcendent’ global security initiative call
- Wang Yi calls for end to unilateral sanctions that ‘constrain economic development of other nations’
- Regional security cannot be guaranteed by strengthening, or even expanding, military blocs, he says
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China has stepped up calls to remove unilateral sanctions and renewed its push for a global security initiative that it says will transcend Western security theories.
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In an article in Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily on Sunday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi wrote that sanctions were causing more chaos.
Wang made the assessment as part of an expansion on a global security initiative advocated by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Boao Forum for Asia on Thursday, saying the initiative “transcended Western geopolitical security theory”.
At the forum, Xi said China opposed decoupling and called for action to stop “severe and negative” spillover effects from policy decisions and to help stabilise the global supply chain.
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China’s delicate position on Russia-Ukraine crisis and its opposition to Western sanctions
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Facing mounting pressure from the United States, Beijing is trying to challenge Washington’s global agenda and consolidate ties with its neighbours, calling on them not to side with the US.
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