Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi believes they could get a fresh start after a period of “unprecedented hardship”.
Le Monde avec Reuters
Relations between China and the United States are at a” new turning point “and could make a fresh start after a period of” unprecedented difficulties “, said on Saturday January 2, the top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi.
Relations between the world’s two largest economies have been damaged by a series of disagreements over trade, human rights and the origin of the pandemic of Covid-19.
Wang Yi, state councilor and Chinese foreign minister, said in a statement interview with the Xinhua News Agency that the latest measures taken by the United States had weighed on relations between the two countries.
Learn “the lesson”
Called nt the United States to “respect the social system and the development path” chosen by China, Wang Yi said that if Washington “learned the lesson”, the conflicts between the two countries could be resolved.
US politicians accused China of covering up the Covid-19 epidemic when it broke out, allowing the coronavirus to spread further faster.
Wang Yi said that China had done everything possible to limit the spread of the disease, “giving the alarm” to the rest of the world.