© CGTNFILE PHOTO: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. Washington is "in no position to point fingers" at Beijing, Foreign Ministry official Wang Wenbin has argued.
During Wang's regular press briefing on Thursday, a journalist with China's Global Times mentioned speculation that G7 leaders will ask Beijing "to abide by international rules" when they meet in Japan later this month.
Issuing a lengthy response, Wang began by asserting that "for the overwhelming majority of countries in the world" the term "international rules" means the basic standards of relations enshrined in the UN Charter.
"However, when the G7 talk about international rules, they mean the Western rules," he continued. "Those rules serve the vested interest of very few countries, including the G7, rather than the common interests of the international community."
While asking China to abide by these rules, the US has walked away from 17 international organizations and treaties, "spied indiscriminately" on its allies and enemies alike, "strong-armed countries diplomatically, and applied economic coercion and military interference," Wang contended.
"The US has blatantly invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, and other countries that are smaller and weaker than the US, killing and displacing tens of millions of innocent civilians," the official added. "When it comes to international rules, the US's place is in the dock. It is in no position to point fingers at other countries."
It is unclear which report the Global Times journalist was referring to. However, Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported last week that the G7's joint communique - usually released following summits - would include an entire section urging China to "act responsibly" regarding its claim to Taiwan and its relationship with Russia.
The communique's language will likely mirror that of a joint statement by G7 foreign ministers released last month. In that statement, the ministers accused Beijing of human rights violations in Xinjiang and Tibet, denounced its claims in the South China Sea, and demanded that it act "as a responsible member of the international community."
Chinese officials have repeatedly dismissed such messages from the West, and Wang has previously declared that Beijing will not listen to accusations from a country that commits "war crimes and crimes against humanity."
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Now, now, let's just all try to get along.
Acting responsibly means ''Do as we say, not as we do''. They can tantrum and sanction as much as they want, China will not do as they say, does not nor will not do as they do.
"When it comes to international rules, the US's place is in the dock. It is in no position to point fingers at other countries." The Chinese have become unusually and publicly direct and to the point in voicing their opinions.
Moreover, other countries may not be using language such as this, but their actions speak louder than words. The Arab League of 22 countries has just re-admitted Syria, which it had expelled in 2011 at the insistence of the USA, which had made the demand as per instructions to Washington from Tel Aviv. The Arab League is no longer afraid of, or has any respect left for, the USA and its master, Israel.
Saudi Arabia has just made peace and restored diplomatic relations with Iran, brokered by China. Does anyone realize how momentous that is? For 1,370 years, since the year 650 AD, Sunnis and Shiites have hated and fought each other, encouraged by Western empires whose motto was "divide and conquer." Now, encouraged by China, they have made peace.
All the nations of Asia are going their own way, making treaties, establishing business ties, building infrastructure, and totally ignoring the demands, orders and threats of the USA and its NATO vassals. The economies of all the Western nations are collapsing, subject as they are to the dictates of the USA, in its perpetual wars with the rest of the planet on behalf of its overlord, Israel.
Driven by the dual-citizenship Jewish Neocons who run Washington, the CIA, and the State Department, occupying all the top posts in those agencies, and whose motivations are solely the welfare of Israel, and who care nothing if the USA collapses and dies, the America we once knew has already vanished into history. Whether or not Jerusalem becomes the new capital of the world, as is their hope, the world no longer fears or respects America. It is nothing but a stinking pile of rotting garbage, in the eyes of the world, (except for NATO and Japan.)
These words of the Chinese FM prove it.
Especially the Chinese had been most metaphorical in their statements, and sticklers to diplomatic language and form.
This should give Western politicians a pause.
I do not think this is sincere (what "China" is saying). Fits too neatly into East vs. West divide talking points. The system of world government is an economic one based on debt. The international cartels (and the billionaire globalists that run them) are not worried about what Wang is saying (in my opinion). In fact, this plays right into normal stock globalist plans(IMHO)...provoke one party to attack another...i.e. eastern countries against western ones where the governments of both are controlled by the politicians who are sponsored by international corporations. To me this is theatre. Might as well bring in Escobar and have him show another pic of Xi and Putin toasting each other with wine glasses in hand...
The conduct of the Ukraine war has caused me to question that narrative - something doesn't feel right. After injecting slow-acting poison into its people to depopulate, and running up unsustainable government debt, plus its exposure to banking sector derivatives - the West is really looking for an escape hatch - and WW III would do the trick.
The open question is, since China/Russia did not use mRNA to depopulate, and have economic strength or natural resources to weather any financial storms - what does playing along with WWIII do for them?
Give them some time! Wait for the next pandemic: 'China Approves an mRNA Covid Vaccine, Its First' [Link] 'Vector Center developing mRNA coronavirus vaccine — expert' [Link] ... My theory is that it is propaganda. Big Pharma is an international cartel. Illegal drug cartels are a subsidiary. Looking through the lens of nation state politics (to me) is like trying to figure out what is inside a book by only looking at its cover (and not actually reading the book).