BEIJING: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should stay clear of any power rivalry between big countries, China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Tuesday (Mar 7).
At an annual parliament meeting in Beijing, Qin also said that ASEAN cannot be an agent of any external force.
The foreign minister was responding to a question about how countries in the region are under pressure and finding it increasingly difficult to rely on the US for security guarantees, and on China on the economic front.
He said that the Indo-Pacific strategy by the United States is an attempt to form “exclusive cliques” that hurts the interests of regional countries, adding that any attempt to encircle China is bound to fail.
Qin noted that leaders of a number of regional countries have stated that ASEAN should not be a proxy for any party and should stay clear of big power rivalry.
He said that as a pacesetter for global development, the US should set the stage for win-win cooperation, rather than a chess board for geopolitical contests.
No cold war should be ignited and a crisis like the one in Ukraine should not be repeated in Asia, he added.
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WILMINGTON, Delaware: The Biden administration is close to tightening rules on some overseas investments by US companies to limit China’s ability to acquire technologies that could improve its military prowess, according to a US official familiar with the deliberations.
The soon-to-be-issued executive order from President Joe Biden will limit American investment in advanced technologies that have national security applications – such as next-generation military capabilities that could help China improve the speed and accuracy of military decision-making, according to the official, who was not authorized to comment and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The expected action is the latest effort by the White House to target China’s military and technology sectors at a time of increasingly fraught relations between the world’s two biggest economies.
In October, the Biden administration imposed export controls to limit China’s ability to access advanced chips, which it says can be used to make weapons, commit human rights abuses, and improve the speed and accuracy of its military logistics.
The complicated relationship has become further strained in recent weeks after the US shot down a Chinese spy balloon last month that traversed the country.
The Biden administration has also publicized US intelligence findings that raise concern Beijing is weighing providing Russia weaponry for its ongoing war on Ukraine.
The tensions were on display as top diplomats from the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations ended a contentious meeting in New Delhi on Thursday with no consensus on the Ukraine war and concerns about China’s widening global influence dominating much of the talks.
Meanwhile, China this past week blasted the new House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party after it held its first hearing on countering Beijing’s influence. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning demanded its members “discard their ideological bias and zero-sum Cold War mentality.”
SOCHI, RUSSIA – MAY 19: (RUSSIA OUT) Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Bocharov Ruchey State Residence on May 19, 2016 in Sochi, Russia. Leaders of ASEAN states have arrived in Russia’s Black Sea resort city of Sochi to attend the Russia-ASEAN Summit. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
