US’s China strategy a path to confrontation, Beijing warns
- Chinese foreign minister tells conference that Washington’s extreme anxiety is unwarranted
- Henry Kissinger says the risk of conflict is growing as technology advances
The US strategy towards China has pushed the two powers into confrontation, threatening turmoil for other nations, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Tuesday.
“The current atmosphere of China-US relations is very abnormal, and the extreme anxiety of the US is completely unnecessary,” the Chinese foreign ministry quoted Wang as saying.
“If the US blindly defines China-US relations in terms of great power competition and takes a ‘you lose, I win’ approach to policy, it will only push China and the US into confrontation and conflict, and push the world into division and turmoil.
“China-US relations are encountering more and more challenges, and the historical narrative of the relations has been distorted. The development direction is in danger of being further led astray.”