None
EN
China’s US ambassador chides Washington for ‘closing doors’, enacting tariffs
['Khushboo Razdan']
South China Morning Post
Beijing’s top US envoy on Monday presented China as a global leader in globalisation and multilateralism, taking a jibe at Washington for “closing doors” as the US under President Donald Trump imposes hefty unilateral tariffs on countries around the world and tightens its visa policies.
AdvertisementCharacterising China and the US as “two main builders of the post [second world war] international order”, and celebrating the economic relationship that grew once Washington reestablished official relations with Beijing, Xie Feng, China’s ambassador also said that the two global powers must “act with greater responsibility”.
Urging the US to work together to benefit people on both sides and towards world peace, Feng warned Washington to exercise “extra prudence” on the Taiwan question and “stop spreading the fallacy that Taiwan’s status is undetermined”.
“While some countries are closing doors, China has taken the initiative to open wide,”, Xie said at an embassy event celebrating the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, adding that Beijing has stayed “firmly committed to expanding unilateral and institutional opening up”.
Cooperation and maintain steady economic development”, he emphasised.