China’s new foreign minister, Qin Kong, said on Tuesday that the United States and his country are headed for conflict, and it is up to the United States to prevent it.
It is worth recalling that Qin Kong, who was appointed to the position last December to replace Wang Yi, who served as the country’s foreign minister for the longest time, previously served as the Chinese ambassador to the United States.
Responding to questions during his first annual press conference in Beijing, he said:
America and China are headed for a major conflict. America has the ‘brake’ to stop it. If that country does not use it, the march towards conflict will continue.
China wants healthy competition with the US. But America is trying to crush China.
A participant in a sports competition is justified in winning the competition by showing more skill than the opponent. Instead it is not fair to attempt to block and injure the opponent. That is exactly what America is doing.
Relations with Russia: Russia and China are examples of how foreign countries can maintain friendly relations among themselves. It is wrong to view the friendship between the two countries with a Cold War perspective.
Our relationship is one of ‘non-alliance, non-conflict, non-targeting of 3rd countries’.
There is nothing wrong with reducing the use of the US dollar and the European euro in currency transactions with Russia, and increasing the use of the Russian ruble and the Chinese yuan.
We will use whatever currency is convenient and safe for us. He said that the use of currency should not determine the political relationship.
In the list of countries with the largest number of nuclear weapons in the world, the United States ranks second and China ranks third. In this context, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that the two countries are heading towards a conflict due to the actions of the United States.