On February 18th, Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister, Wang Yi, while meeting the American business groups, remarked that Washington and Beijing should find a way to stabilise ties. According to him, the countries should direct their attention to significant, practical, and beneficial matters for the two countries and the world.
The minister’s visit to New York is related to the UN Security Council Presidency role that China currently fulfills. Apart from Wang Yi, the meetings were attended by the Chinese Ambassador to the US. They met with the representatives of the US-China Business Council, the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Committee on US-China Relations, the Asia Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
The American Business representatives underlined matters such as long-standing economic barriers for American companies, farmers, and workers and called on both sides to cooperate.
In addition to the above-mentioned, Wang Yi spoke in the UN headquarters about the global events and highlighted the importance of peace talks in Ukraine, as well as the Middle East. He added that Gaza and the West Bank should not be „bargaining chips for political trade-offs“. The Chinese representative also stressed the importance of consensus-based politics and stated: „We must not allow the strong to rule the weak, still less revert to the law of the jungle.”
