On the invitation of Prime Minister Hun Sen of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Premier of the State Council Li Keqiang will attend the twenty fifth China-ASEAN Summit, the twenty fifth ASEAN Plus Three (APT) Summit and the seventeenth East Asia Summit to be held in Cambodia from November 8 to 13, and pay an official go to to Cambodia.
Xinhua Information Company: Are you able to share with us the association of Premier Li’s go to to Cambodia? How does China view its relations with Cambodia?
Zhao Lijian: China and Cambodia are pleasant neighbors and iron-clad mates. In recent times, China-Cambodia relations have proven high-level robustness. Efforts to construct a China-Cambodia neighborhood with a shared future has delivered fruitful outcomes for each international locations. Each Chinese language and Cambodians have benefited from the expansion of bilateral relations.
Because the pandemic lingers and the worldwide economic system is struggling to get better, uncertainty and instability continues to rise. China stays dedicated to its international coverage objectives of upholding world peace and selling widespread growth, and it’s devoted to selling a human neighborhood with a shared future. Appearing on the rules of amity, sincerity, mutual profit, and inclusiveness and the coverage of forging friendships and partnerships with its neighbors, China strives to reinforce pleasant ties, mutual belief, and converging pursuits with Cambodia and different neighboring international locations.
Throughout his go to, Premier Li Keqiang will meet with His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni, and have talks with Prime Minister Hun Sen. The go to supplies an vital alternative for China and Cambodia to share expertise in governance, deepen cooperation on agriculture, manufacturing, inexperienced economic system and people-to-people contacts, be one another’s firm on our respective distinctive path to modernization, contribute collectively to the range of creating international locations’ pathways to modernization and create extra profit to our two peoples.
CCTV: Dealing with rising uncertainty and instability within the worldwide state of affairs, what are China’s view and expectation on how the leaders’ conferences on East Asia cooperation will drive regional peace and growth?
Zhao Lijian: The challenges we face in our world immediately — sluggish financial restoration, international safety volatility, and mounting dangers in meals, vitality and monetary safety within the area — all name for a collective response.
The profitable twentieth CPC Nationwide Congress made it clear that China stays dedicated to its international coverage objectives of upholding world peace and selling widespread growth, and it’s devoted to selling a human neighborhood with a shared future.
China hopes the conferences will: first, concentrate on the widespread growth of the area, advance high-quality Belt and Street cooperation, collectively reply to urgent challenges resembling meals and vitality points, and nurture new driver of development resembling digitalization and low-carbon growth; second, push ahead East Asia’s financial integration course of, work collectively for high-quality implementation of RCEP, speed up the negotiations of a China-ASEAN Free Commerce Space 3.0, and preserve industrial and provide chains secure and unfettered; and third, defend peace and tranquility of the area, uphold multilateralism and open regionalism, bolster ASEAN centrality, and construct an open and inclusive regional cooperation structure.
Yonhap Information Company: The US-ROK Safety Consultative Assembly was held in Washington yesterday. Each leaders reaffirmed the dedication to deploy US strategic property to the Korean Peninsula in a well timed and coordinated method as vital, within the face of the DPRK’s nuclear threats. Do you’ve any remark?
Zhao Lijian: China has famous this. I have to stress that to carry concerning the political settlement of points on the Peninsula and stop a spiral of escalation, events have to work with one another fairly than take unilateral strikes that exert strain and heighten confrontation. We hope related events will cease any transfer which will escalate rigidity and confrontation and undermine mutual belief.
CRI: Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has concluded her go to to China immediately. Are you able to share extra particulars of her go to with us?
Zhao Lijian: Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan paid a state go to to China upon invitation from November 2 to 4. President Hassan is the primary African head of state China has acquired after the twentieth CPC Nationwide Congress. On the afternoon of November 3, President Xi Jinping had a gathering with President Hassan, and held a welcoming ceremony and a welcome banquet for her. On the identical day, Premier Li Keqiang and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Nationwide Individuals’s Congress Li Zhanshu met with President Hassan respectively.
President Xi briefed President Hassan on the proceedings of the twentieth CPC Nationwide Congress. He mentioned,China has already discovered a growth path suited to its nationwide situations. Chinese language modernization is grounded in China’s personal realities, with options which might be distinctive to the Chinese language context. On behalf of the Tanzanian Revolutionary Social gathering (CCM) and the Tanzanian authorities, President Hassan prolonged heat congratulations on the success of the twentieth CPC Nationwide Congress and President Xi’s re-election as Normal Secretary of the CPC Central Committee.
The 2 presidents introduced the elevation of the bilateral relationship to a complete strategic cooperative partnership, which supplies strategic steering for the event of China-Tanzania relations going ahead. Each side are of the view that China and Tanzania take pleasure in a time-honored friendship. The sound development of China-Tanzania relations not solely advances the widespread and long-term pursuits of the 2 international locations, but additionally carries nice significance for constructing a China-Africa neighborhood with a shared future within the new period. The 2 sides reiterated their agency mutual assist for one another on points regarding one another’s core pursuits, and agreed to work collectively to spice up the extent of commerce and financial cooperation, deepen high-quality Belt and Street cooperation, strengthen people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and carry ahead the friendship between the 2 peoples, improve cooperation in worldwide and multilateral settings, and collectively uphold worldwide equity, justice and the widespread pursuits of fellow creating international locations.
The 2 sides agreed that in rising China-Africa relations, either side want to stay dedicated to the general route of mutual belief, mutual profit, mutual studying and mutual help. Each China and Africa have to construct on their time-honored conventional friendship, carry ahead the spirit of China-Africa friendship and cooperation, and present larger historic initiative in advancing friendship between China and Africa. China’s steady growth will create new alternatives for Africa. China will pace up the implementation of the continued 9 initiatives for cooperation with Africa. With a specific concentrate on infrastructure, we’ll proceed to nurture new drivers for China-Africa cooperation via commerce, funding and financing. The Tanzanian facet responds warmly to the International Growth Initiative and is keen to work with China to operationalize this initiative and construct a neighborhood with a shared future for mankind.
Throughout the go to, the 2 sides issued a Joint Assertion on Establishing a Complete Strategic Cooperative Partnership between the Individuals’s Republic of China and the United Republic of Tanzania and signed 15 cooperation paperwork overlaying commerce, funding, growth cooperation, digital economic system, inexperienced growth and blue economic system.
AFP: A query on German Chancellor Scholz’s go to to China. Have the 2 leaders mentioned points associated to human rights and the rights of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang?
Zhao Lijian: Prioir to our press briefing, China has put out the readout concerning the assembly between President Xi and Chancellor Scholz. You could check with that. There are different conferences and talks scheduled between the leaders of the 2 sides. Please test again for updates.
Shenzhen TV: In line with reviews, the Muang Xay station of the China-Laos Railway in Northern Laos lately launched its freight practice companies, which marks the opening of all freight stations of the China-Laos Railway. Do you’ve any remark?
Zhao Lijian: We famous the reviews and want to specific our congratulations. Totally opened, these freight stations will add to the boosting energy of the China-Laos Railway in accelerating regional connectivity and additional bolster the high-quality Belt and Street cooperation between China and ASEAN international locations.
As President Xi Jinping famous, connectivity is significant to advancing Belt and Street cooperation. We’re completely happy to notice that China and its neighbors have lately seen fairly a number of milestones of their connectivity. Throughout the go to to China by Normal Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong of the Communist Social gathering of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, China and Vietnam agreed to hurry up the hassle to signal a cooperation plan on selling the synergy between the Belt and Street Initiative (BRI) and the “Two Corridors, One Financial Belt” initiative. Beneath the framework of the China-Pakistan Financial Hall, China and Pakistan will pace up the implementation of tasks together with the Gwadar Port and the upgradation of ML-1. On the China-Singapore Bilateral Cooperation Mechanism Conferences, the 2 sides collectively introduced vital outcomes in connectivity and agreed to additional deepen strategic synergy and advance the New Worldwide Land-Sea Commerce Hall.
The twentieth Nationwide Congress of the Social gathering said explicitly that China will contribute its share to constructing an open international economic system and promote the high-quality growth of the BRI. China stands able to work with all events to deepen the BRI’s synergy with the event methods of different international locations and regional cooperation initiatives. China is dedicated to wider and extra handy connectivity and mutual profit for folks in all international locations.
Phoenix TV: Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have been rising lately. Sure nation mentioned that international locations on the earth ought to take all measures doable to impose sanctions on the DPRK and maintain it accountable for continued provocations. What’s China’s remark?
Zhao Lijian: Sanctions and strain does no assist the political settlement of the problems on the Korean Peninsula. The proper approach ahead is to resolve the legit issues of all events in a balanced approach via significant dialogue. We hope events involved will face squarely the basis trigger and timeline of occasions concerning the developments on the Korean Peninsula, and play a extra constructive half in resuming dialogue and safeguarding regional stability.
Reuters: In line with a Bloomberg report, China is contemplating ending the circuit breaker system whereby if there are greater than a sure variety of constructive circumstances of coronavirus on worldwide flights that arrive in China, then that route is suspended for a sure time frame. Can China verify this? And likewise, if true, when. Does this sign that China is trying to ease its strict COVID insurance policies?
Zhao Lijian: I’m not conscious of what you talked about. I might refer you to competent authorities. China’s coverage and place on COVID-19 containment are clear and constant.
AFP: In line with reviews, China and Japan are planning for a gathering between the 2 leaders on the G20 summit or the APEC assembly. Are you able to verify this?
Zhao Lijian: As to your query, I’ve nothing to share in the meanwhile.
China Information Service: China lately printed the Particular Plan on Scientific and Technological Innovation within the Area of Ecological Surroundings for the 14th 5-Yr Plan Interval (2021-2025). Do you’ve any remark?
Zhao Lijian: On November 2, the Particular Plan on Scientific and Technological Innovation within the Area of Ecological Surroundings for the 14th 5-Yr Plan Interval (2021-2025) was formally launched. That is one other vital step taken by China towards constructing an exquisite nation. The Plan lays out the 50 most important tech growth duties in 10 fields together with eco-environment monitoring and local weather response. The purpose is to speed up an all-round transition to a mannequin of inexperienced financial and social growth.
The report back to the twentieth CPC Nationwide Congress states that Chinese language modernization is dedicated to concord between humanity and nature. We’ll proceed to uphold the precept that lucid waters and plush mountains are invaluable property, and produce about bluer skies, greener mountains and clearer waters. China has introduced the imaginative and prescient of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and established the “1+N” coverage framework for implementing carbon peaking and carbon neutrality aim. China will proceed to actively take part in worldwide cooperation on local weather response.
This Sunday, the twenty seventh session of the Convention of the Events to the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change will likely be held in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, and China will ship a high-level delegation to the convention. We’ll be part of palms with all events to deal with the local weather problem, and work collectively for constructive, balanced and complete outcomes.
China Each day: The First Committee (Disarmament and Worldwide Safety) of the 77th session of the UN Normal Meeting authorised the draft decision “Selling Worldwide Cooperation on Peaceable Makes use of within the Context of Worldwide Safety” put ahead by China, as had occurred final yr. May you give extra perception into this?
Zhao Lijian: On November 3 Beijing time, the 77th session of the UNGA First Committee authorised China’s draft decision “Selling Worldwide Cooperation on Peaceable Makes use of within the Context of Worldwide Safety”.
A peaceable world is the shared need of all international locations. Advancing widespread growth is a long-standing pursuit of the creating international locations. Using science and expertise for peaceable functions and conducting related worldwide cooperation are the inalienable rights of all international locations conferred by worldwide legislation. In addition they present a key power driving sustainable socioeconomic growth. For years, the appropriate of the creating international locations to the peaceable use of science and expertise and to worldwide cooperation free from discrimination has not acquired due consideration. There are nonetheless undue restrictions on creating international locations’ regular entry to materials, tools and expertise.
The decision is actually about upholding creating international locations’ proper to the peaceable use of science and expertise. It requires open, inclusive and truthful dialogue inside the UN framework and goals to attain mutually-reinforcing interplay of peaceable makes use of and export management. This decision represents the shared stance and voice of creating international locations and speaks for the vital rules and dedication the creating international locations follow on peaceable use, worldwide cooperation and sustainable growth.
Within the new context of our occasions, China will keep firmly dedicated to a mutually useful technique of opening up and stay an integral a part of advancing international governance via joint session and concerted efforts,promote inclusive sci-tech progress and create a global setting that’s conducive to widespread growth. China will work with all events to advance the follow-up technique of the decision to make sure its full and efficient implementation and the attainment of its object and function.
AFP: In line with French International Minister, upon China’s invitation, French President Emmanuel Macron can pay a go to to China within the coming weeks or months. Are you able to verify this go to?
Zhao Lijian: I’ve no data to supply in the meanwhile.
The New York Instances: One other Lengthy March rocket booster is predicted to make its descent within the subsequent few hours. Have any measures been taken to cut back the danger it would pose to populated areas?
Zhao Lijian: I want to refer you to the competent authorities for particular questions. To present you our principled place, I want to stress that China has all alongside pursued the peaceable use of outer area in accordance with worldwide legislation and the worldwide customary observe. The reentry of a rocket’s higher stage into the Earth’s ambiance is a longtime worldwide observe. The rocket you talked about is designed with particular expertise, and the overwhelming majority of its parts will expend through the re-entry into the ambiance. The likelihood of this course of inflicting hurt to aviation actions or to the bottom is extraordinarily low. The competent authorities in China have been intently monitoring the orbital parameters of the rocket remnants, and sharing data in an open, clear and well timed method to the worldwide neighborhood.
International Instances: On November 3, the UN Normal Meeting (UNGA) as soon as once more voted with an amazing majority for the US to raise financial, industrial and monetary blockade towards Cuba. A complete of 185 international locations voted in favor of the decision to raise the blockade, two international locations abstained, and two international locations voted towards the decision. This marks the just about unanimous adoption of such a decision in UNGA for 30 consecutive occasions. What’s China’s remark?
Zhao Lijian: The truth that 185 international locations voted overwhelmingly in favor of the decision as soon as once more exhibits that the overwhelming majority of nations on the earth are critically involved about and firmly against the US arbitrary unilateral sanctions on Cuba which have gravely threatened the fundamental human rights of the Cuban folks, and that they assist Cuba’s simply battle for its sovereignty and towards the blockade.
Simply as Cuban International Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla mentioned forward of the vote, the embargo is a “deliberate act of financial warfare with the aim of…inflicting the economic system to break down and making a state of affairs of ungovernability.” The 60-year-long embargo on Cuba has generated big financial losses and grave humanitarian disasters in Cuba.
Whereas claiming to be a “human rights defender”, the US has been creating human rights disasters and tragedies one after one other. It’s definitely not human rights, however its personal hegemony that the US seeks to guard. The US retains saying one factor and doing one other. Such hypocrisy isn’t any secret to the world, and the world has acted in response. UNGA has adopted this decision for 30 consecutive occasions, every time with an amazing majority. This could immediate the US to heed the voice for justice, put a direct finish to the financial, industrial and commerce embargo on Cuba, and cease being on the improper facet towards the worldwide neighborhood.
China and the US are good mates, good comrades and good brothers. China has voted in favor of all 30 resolutions calling for an finish to the blockade. China will proceed to firmly assist the Cuban folks’s efforts to oppose exterior interference and blockade and defend sovereignty and nationwide dignity.
AFP: Has China stepped up its effort in speaking to the DPRK following the DPRK’s firing of missiles this week? If sure, what particularly has been talked about?
Zhao Lijian: I can guarantee you that the diplomatic channel between either side is unimpeded. As to the actual particulars you requested about, I’ve no particular data to supply.
The Paper: Twenty years in the past immediately, authorities representatives of China and ASEAN international locations signed the Declaration on the Conduct of Events within the South China Sea (DOC) in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia. How China sees the position of the DOC over the previous twenty years?
Zhao Lijian: This yr marks the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the DOC. It’s the first political doc signed by China and ASEAN international locations on the South China Sea, which established the fundamental rules and customary norms for the events on dealing with the problem. The signing and implementation of the DOC has consolidated political mutual belief between China and ASEAN international locations and promoted bilateral dialogue and cooperation on maritime points. It has not solely performed a key position in holding the South China Sea peaceable and secure, but additionally created a sound regional setting for China-ASEAN relations. In July this yr, China efficiently held a workshop to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the DOC. Members from China and ASEAN international locations reviewed the spirit of the DOC, spoke extremely of its position and landmark significance, and expressed their expectation for the continued full and efficient implementation of the DOC.
A peaceable and secure South China Sea serves the widespread pursuits of China and ASEAN international locations and desired by the worldwide neighborhood. The success of the DOC totally exhibits that China and ASEAN international locations have the arrogance, knowledge and talent to deal with points referring to the South China Sea. China will proceed to totally and successfully implement the DOC, advance the consultations on a code of conduct within the South China Sea, and deepen maritime dialogue and cooperation with ASEAN international locations in order to construct the South China Sea right into a sea of peace, friendship and cooperation.
Reuters: Is China contemplating any changes or adjustments to COVID protocols?
Zhao Lijian: I might refer you to competent authorities on questions concerning the COVID coverage.
Reuters: You simply mentioned that the diplomatic channel between either side is unimpeded. Do you suppose China has completed sufficient when it comes to sustaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula?
Zhao Lijian: I simply said China’s place on the problems of the Korean Peninsula. The flip of occasions and root causes which have led to the present state of affairs are clear to all. We hope events involved can show sincerity with actions, work with one another and play a constructive position in in search of a political settlement of the points of the Peninsula.
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