Iran Press/ Asia: The United States has cast Beijing as a villain in Southeast Asia, presenting itself as the defender of international law and the rights of smaller nations. However, Washington's solution to the disputes is a military standoff, while China has voiced its desire for dialogue and mutually beneficial relationships.
Speaking to Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned that one of the city-state’s biggest geopolitical partners, the United States, would be a never-ending source of chaos and instability.
“The United States is dropping the mask of fair competition when it coerces other countries to engage in unilateral protectionism against China. These actions will only undermine trust in Washington and prove to the world that the United States has become the biggest factor of instability today,” Wang Yi was quoted as saying.
“On the one hand, it condones and supports the Taiwan independence forces relying on the United States to seek independence, trying to cross China’s red lines,” he said. “On the other hand, it tears away the pretense of fair competition and coerces other countries into unilateral protectionism against China. These perverse practices will only damage its own credibility, laying bare the fact that the United States has become the biggest destabilizing factor in the world.”
Wang is on a tour of Southeast Asia to buttress Chinese relations with Singapore as well as Cambodia and Malaysia amid a heated dispute with the Philippines over a contested coral reef in the South China Sea and an increased effort by Washington to woo regional powers away from Beijing.
Washington’s relationship with Beijing is one of its most complicated and consequential and one that has seen months of strain, including two military-related incidents in recent weeks.
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