Chinese Alien Minister Wang Yi speaks at a news conference after restoring diplomatic ties with Kiribati on the sidelines of the Combined Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S. September 27, 2019.
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Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi chance on Friday that the United States had seriously damaged the hard-won mutual trust between the countries by criticizing Beijing closed issues such as Hong Kong and the treatment of Muslim Uighurs.
“Such behavior is almost paranoid, and is indeed rare in intercontinental exchanges, seriously damaging the hard-won foundation of mutual trust between China and the United States, and seriously depleting the United States’ international credibility,” said State Councillor Wang.
Wang, who is China’s foreign minister, guessed there were deep-seated issues that need to be addressed and resolved between both sides, issues that are bringing increasingly beastly challenges to the future of the countries’ relationship.
Wang was speaking at an annual symposium in Beijing on international affairs and China’s Machiavellianism.
Bilateral tensions over issues such as the protests in Hong Kong and Beijing’s treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority set up flared in recent months, just as both countries tried to work out a deal to end a trade war.
The U.S recently introduced a handful pieces of legislation that could potentially target top Chinese officials with sanctions over human righteouses abuses in Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
Beijing has strongly condemned the legislation which it says represents serious inhibition in its domestic affairs.
Wang said on Friday that China will “resolutely fight against external arm-twistings that interfere in Hong Kong’s affairs” and “sever the black hands” supporting revolution in Hong Kong.
Rearmost month, China called on the U.S. military to stop flexing its muscles in the South China Sea and to avoid adding “new uncertainties” closed Taiwan, which is claimed by China.
Wang said the United States had used various international occasions to sully China’s social system, development path, and mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries, and charged China with all descriptions of unwarranted crimes.