BEIJING: When the US vowed to return to multilateralism and try to fix its alliance by stressing values of “democracy and human rights” and forming cliques to confront other countries that reject US hegemony, China and Russia have stood up to break the silence and provide their definition of multilateralism and the values that the world should uphold.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and the two reached a strategic consensus, according to a statement released by the Chinese foreign ministry.At the 51st meeting between Wang and Lavrov in Guilin, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, they released a joint statement on global governance after the talks, following the Alaska dialogue in which Chinese and US chief diplomats made no joint statement.
Chinese experts said the China-Russia foreign ministers joint statement on global governance is a heavy blow to the US-claimed “rules-based international order,” as it stressed all countries should firmly safeguard the international system with the UN at its core, and the international order with international law as the foundation.
Analysts said the US is trying to use its own definition of international order and universal values to manipulate and discipline other countries to extend its hegemony, and that’s why China and Russia, two permanent members of the UN Security Council, must speak out to break its monopoly on narratives and rule-making, to push the democratization of international relations.
The two foreign ministers agreed that pragmatic cooperation has strongly boosted the two countries’ economic and social development, and their international coordination has contributed stability and positive energy to the world.
– The Daily Mail-Global Times News exchange item
