On Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Gang considered that China and Europe should together renounce the “cold war mentality”, coinciding with a ministerial meeting of the European Union aimed at “adjusting” the European position towards Beijing.
On Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Gang considered that China and Europe should together renounce the “cold war mentality”, coinciding with a ministerial meeting of the European Union aimed at “adjusting” the European position towards Beijing.
“Today some people escalate talk of democracy in the face of tyranny and go so far as to talk about a new cold war,” Qin Gang said at a press conference during a visit to Oslo.
“If a new cold war takes place, the result will be more catastrophic” than the previous one, he added. He stressed that both China and Europe should “reject the Cold War mentality.”
The words of the Chinese foreign minister came at a time when his counterparts in the European Union are meeting in Stockholm, in neighboring Sweden, in an effort to unify the position towards China.
“We have to recalibrate our attitude towards China,” said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell at the start of the meeting.
China and Western countries are clashing over several files, including Ukraine, Taiwan, human rights and the Uyghurs. But Westerners did not adopt a unified approach to all these issues.
