Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi calls for global cooperation at UN, Asia meetings

Nations ‘must be highly vigilant and resolutely oppose inciting and creating a so-called new cold war’, he says at CICA forum

‘To strengthen and improve global governance, major powers must play an exemplary role,’ he tells UN meeting

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi makes a virtual address to the UN on Thursday. Photo: AP

Published: 2:23pm, 25 Sep 2020Updated: 10:01pm, 25 Sep 2020

Countries of the world must work together on the basis of justice and fairness to prevent a new cold war, and major powers should show the way, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday in separate addresses to an Asian forum and the United Nations.

At a virtual meeting of foreign ministers from the member nations of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), Wang said the world was facing an array of new challenges.

“Under the current international situation, tension and opposition have risen significantly,” he said.

“We must be highly vigilant and resolutely oppose inciting and creating a so-called new cold war.”

China would work with other Asian countries “to forge a new type of international relations based on mutual respect, fairness, justice and mutually beneficial cooperation”, he said.

Earlier in the day, Wang spoke at a UN Security Council ministerial meeting – held in the form of a videoconference on the sidelines of the 75th General Assembly, where China once again came under fire from the United States.