Wellington: The Chinese President Xi Jinping warned to return to the Cold War era division on Thursday Asia-Pacific because tensions were installed on Taiwan’s security.
In run-up to the virtual peak anticipated with US President Joe Biden as early as next week, XI said countries in the region must work with the general challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic to trade.
“Efforts to draw ideological lines or form small circles on geo-political land must fail,” he told the virtual business conference on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific economic cooperation summit held by New Zealand.
“The Asia-Pacific region cannot and may not relapse into the confrontation and division of the Cold War era.” The XI call came a few hours after China and the United States announced a surprise pact to accelerate the climate action at the peak in Glasgow where countries strive to approve the steps to curb earth warming.
The Chinese leader did not mention the US agreement directly but said “We can all start the green, low carbon sustainable development path.
“Together, we can deliver the future of green developments,” he said.
Chinese and US leaders will hold virtual talks “immediately”, according to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The report said the meeting would take place immediately after next week.
But while Biden has identified a climate as the main area for the potential of cooperation with China, tensions have surged on their rival security strategies in the Asia-Pacific region, especially Taiwan.
Beijing has increased military activities near Taiwan, a powerful democracy that is claimed to be claimed by China, with a number of aircraft disrupting the island air defense identification zone in early October.
Against the background, State Secretary Blinken Wednesday underlined US military support for Taiwan.
“We will ensure that Taiwan has the means to defend himself because the goal here has never reached the point where anyone tried to disrupt the status quo forcefully,” he told an event organized by the New York Times.
But in a message sent to Gala dinner in New York on Tuesday night by the Beijing Ambassador to the United States, Chinese leaders offer concurrent messages.
“At present, China-US relations are at a critical historical point.
The two countries will increase from cooperation and lose to confrontation,” XI said, according to the embassy statement.
China is ready to work with the United States to improve regional and global cooperation and “manage differences correctly”, he said.
In addition to its position in Taiwan, China also claims almost all South China Sea which is rich in resources, where trillions of dollars in shipping shipping trading every year, rejecting compete claims from Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Against the background, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia announced in September that they have formed a new alliance – Aukus – where Australia will get a nuclear-powered submarine using US technology.
Although the delivery of many years and China was not specifically mentioned, the announcement made Beijing anger and separately triggered a line that was angry with France who saw an agreement to sell an Australian conventional submarine.
In his speech to the Asia-Pacific business leaders, XI also called together efforts throughout the region to close the “immunization gap”, making the Covid-19 vaccine more easily accessible to developing countries.
“We must translate consensus that vaccines are global public goodness in concrete actions to ensure fair and fair distribution,” he told the Summit.
Chinese leaders say countries must increase cooperation in research, production, testing, and mutual recognizing vaccines, “to emerge from the shadows of the pandemic and achieve a stable economic recovery on the start date”.