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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi blasts US during Asean tour, calling it world’s ‘biggest source of instability’
- Beijing’s top diplomat accuses Washington of suppressing emerging countries and ‘coercing’ others into ‘unilateral protectionism’
- The comments, made in meeting with Singaporean leader, come a day after US announces restrictions on China-bound tech investments
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China’s top diplomat Wang Yi lashed out at the US on Friday for suppressing emerging countries and described Washington as “the biggest source of instability” in the world.
Wang, who became China’s foreign minister again following Qin Gang’s abrupt departure last month, slammed US hegemony and protectionism during his Southeast Asia trip on Friday, a day after Washington imposed new tech investment curbs against Beijing.
“The United States, out of its motive to maintain unipolar hegemony, is unwilling to see the development and revitalisation of China and other emerging countries,” Wang told Singaporean prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.
“On the one hand, it condones and supports the Taiwan independence forces relying on the United States to seek independence, trying to cross China’s red lines,” Wang said.
“On the other hand, it tears away the pretence of fair competition and coerces other countries into unilateral protectionism against China.
“These perverse practices will only damage its own credibility, laying bare the fact that the United States has become the biggest destabilising factor in the world.”
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