Beijing: China has told Bangladesh A year after Dhaka was publicly asked not to join the Quad coalition of India, the US, Japan and Australia to remain independent and reject bloc politics. “China believes that countries in the region, including Bangladesh, will take into account the fundamental interests of their own countries and the region, uphold independence, reject the Cold War mentality and bloc politics,” liu Jinsong, director general of the Asian Affairs Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told the Bangladeshi ambassador to China, Mahbub Uz surety on Wednesday.
According to a press release issued by the foreign ministry, Liu told Zaman during their meeting in Beijing that regional countries should defend true multilateralism and safeguard a harsh environment for peace and development in the region.
In May last year, China’s ambassador to Bangladeshi Li Jiming in Dhaka courted controversy by publicly asking Bangladesh not to join the Quad coalition. “Obviously, it will not be good for Bangladesh to participate in this small club of four (quad) because it will do a lot of damage to our bilateral relations,” Lee said in Dhaka. Responding to Lee’s remarks, Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen called the Chinese envoy’s remarks “very unfortunate” and “offensive”. “We are a free and sovereign state. We decide our foreign policy,” Momen said at the time.
China has been opposing projecting the Quad as an Asian NATO with the aim of preventing its rise. In his meeting with Zaman in Beijing, Liu attacked US Secretary of State Antony’s recent speech blinken In which he said that China is the only country with the intention of reshaping the international order and with both the economic, diplomatic, military and technical power to do so.
Unveiling the Biden administration’s China policy last Thursday, Blinken called China “the most serious long-term challenge to the international order”. He said the US would avoid conflict or a new Cold War with China, pursuing competition with an “invest, align, compete” strategy.
Liu said Blinken’s “three-point approach” on China reflects a serious divergence in the US’s view of the world and the outlook on Beijing and Sino-US relations.
According to a press release issued by the foreign ministry, Liu told Zaman during their meeting in Beijing that regional countries should defend true multilateralism and safeguard a harsh environment for peace and development in the region.
In May last year, China’s ambassador to Bangladeshi Li Jiming in Dhaka courted controversy by publicly asking Bangladesh not to join the Quad coalition. “Obviously, it will not be good for Bangladesh to participate in this small club of four (quad) because it will do a lot of damage to our bilateral relations,” Lee said in Dhaka. Responding to Lee’s remarks, Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen called the Chinese envoy’s remarks “very unfortunate” and “offensive”. “We are a free and sovereign state. We decide our foreign policy,” Momen said at the time.
China has been opposing projecting the Quad as an Asian NATO with the aim of preventing its rise. In his meeting with Zaman in Beijing, Liu attacked US Secretary of State Antony’s recent speech blinken In which he said that China is the only country with the intention of reshaping the international order and with both the economic, diplomatic, military and technical power to do so.
Unveiling the Biden administration’s China policy last Thursday, Blinken called China “the most serious long-term challenge to the international order”. He said the US would avoid conflict or a new Cold War with China, pursuing competition with an “invest, align, compete” strategy.
Liu said Blinken’s “three-point approach” on China reflects a serious divergence in the US’s view of the world and the outlook on Beijing and Sino-US relations.