American attacks on China risk total destruction of mutual gains, Chinese foreign minister warns
Attempts to turn tide of international sentiment will have ripple effects around the world, Wang Yi warns
Washington is putting four decades of gains in its relationship with Beijing at risk of “total destruction” with its repeated attacks on China, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a group of businesspeople and others in New York on Monday.
Addressing members of the US-China Business Council and the National Committee on US-China Relations, Wang said China and the United States had played a key role in global affairs since they established diplomatic ties in 1979, but recent developments had stopped that momentum.
“The US is increasingly implementing negative policies in relation to China ... frequently blaming China for its unhealthy attitudes in economics, trade and security to artificially create opposing emotions against China,” the Chinese foreign ministry quoted Wang as saying.
“These claims are neither true nor responsible, and only poison bilateral relations.
“If the trend continues, it will totally ruin the gains of the Sino-US relations in the past 40 years. This is unfavourable to both China and the US and ultimately to the world.”
He said cooperation was the only way forward.