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The Chinese leader took indirect shots at the United States and its foreign policy on Tuesday, warning in a UN speech that the world will have to “not fall into the trap of a clash of civilizations,” comments played minutes after delegates heard the president of the United States. He insists that U. S. nations “responsibility China” for how it treated the onset of coronavirus.
“Big countries act as big countries,” Xi Jinping said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, a speech delivered remotely and recorded in advance because the pandemic prevented leaders from meeting as they have for decades. in China before this year and spread around the world, killing nearly a million people.
Xi, President of China and leader of its Communist Party, presented the fight against the virus as a vital exercise in foreign cooperation, an opportunity to “unite and be able to take on even more global challenges. “
“COVID-19 reminds us that economic globalization is an undeniable truth and an ancient trend,” Xi said. “Burying your head in the sand like an ostrich in the face of economic globalization or looking to fight it with Don Quixote’s spear goes against the current of history, let me be clear: the global will never return to isolation.
Such comments, while not appointing U. S. President Donald Trump, are highly critical of him and his “America First” philosophy, which goes against China’s public position on how international relations deserve to be managed. Affairs.
Earlier today, Trump used his own UN speech to categorically condemn Xi’s administration for what the US president calls “the Chinese virus,” a term he used Tuesday. He called the virus an “invisible enemy. ” Many consider the same term “Chinese virus” to be racist.
Although Trump praised Xi early in his tenure, two key issues, a tariff dispute, and the emergence of the coronavirus, helped his administration take a more difficult stance on the Chinese government.
“The United Nations will have to hold China accountable for its actions,” Trump said in his own speech.
China has a long-standing practice of reflective rejection of any complaints about its policy. Tuesday is no exception. While Xi, being pre-recorded and absent, may simply not refute what Trump said, his ambassador to the UN was present in the General Assembly aisle and responded directly by presenting Xi’s video.
“Right now, the world wants more solidarity and cooperation, not confrontation,” Zhang Jun said. “We want to build mutual acceptance as true and accept as true with, not the spread of the political virus. China resolutely rejects the baseless” accusation opposed to China”.
Xi spoke at a historic time when China strives to manage its astonishing, and incredibly complex, military, economic and political rise as it faces the competitive methods of containment of the existing global superpower, the United States, and its friends and allies.
“Xi Jinping has his paintings cut for him in the General Assembly,” said Mike Mazza, a Chinese analyst at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, who highlighted tensions with Europe over industry and investment, climate and human rights, as well as the Trump administration’s most coherent confrontation with China.
Xi has not been able to capitalize on the negative emotions between many European leaders and Trump, while a imaginable détente with Japan has stagnated. Relations with Australia have ignored accusations of espionage and political manipulation and called for an investigation into the Chinese origins of the coronavirus outbreak. Mazza said.
These are, “in general, their own manufacturing,” Mazza said of China.
As competitive as Beijing might seem to its neighbors in using its expanding army and tough economy to forge what it considers its herbal sphere of influence in Asia, this is a fragile moment in what is perceived as China’s inevitable rise as a superpower.
Beijing has been criticized for the persistent consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, which emerged in Wuhan Province late last year. Some say Beijing first tried to control the epidemic before taking credit for its reaction for public relations purposes.
There is outrage at China’s serious restriction of civil rights in Hong Kong following the imposition of a radical national security law in the semi-autonomous city and widespread accusations of mass arrests and cultural genocide opposed to Muslims in the Xinjiang region. in the face of China’s growing tension and the threats of the military opposed to Taiwan, the autonomous island democracy that Beijing claims as its own territory.
Meanwhile, China’s decision to reclaim nearly the entire South China Sea has sparked friction with the United States and Beijing’s southern neighbors, while a decades-long border dispute with India this year has erupted into fatal fights between rival troops that fired for the first time in decades.
All of this has undermined the arguments that herald commitment to China as an industrial war between Beijing, the world’s second-largest economy, and Washington, the largest, continues to boil.
“Xi will locate a highly combined foreign environment when addressing the UNAGG. Most democracies that in the past have greatly supported China’s modernization and progress are uncomfortable with the way Xi is leading China’s rise,” said Steve Tsang, director of the Institute of China at the School of East and African Studies in London.
The United States and China are now “trapped in a collision course that could potentially lead to a damaging military conflict,” said Cheng Li, analyst at Brookings Institution China. An immediate purpose of Xi will be to “show how China has taken the lead in asking for multilateralism and responding to global concerns . . . because America has left a big gap in global leadership. “
Xi, in doing so with his speech, insisted that China under his rule veered into the imperialism that its communist government has long condemned.
“We will never seek hegemony or sphere of influence,” he said. We do not aim to wage a bloodless war or a hot war with any country. “
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Foster Klug, AP’s Chief Information Director for Korea, Japan, Australia and the South Pacific, has covered Asia at annual UNGPA meetings since 2005. Correspondent of Ted Anthony AP and editor in Beijing from 2001 to 2004 and director of Asia-Pacific News from 2014 to 2018.
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