China News Agency, Beijing, April 2 (Reporter Zhang Su) In response to the visits of the foreign ministers of the four Southeast Asian countries, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said at a regular press conference on the 2nd, “China is committed to working with our neighbors to share our The relationship is better".
At the invitation of State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi of China, Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian, Malaysian Foreign Minister Hishammuddin, Indonesian Foreign Minister Leitno, and Philippine Foreign Minister Lochin visited China from March 31 to April 2.
Some reporters noticed that when Wang Yi and Hishammuddin met with reporters, Hishammuddin said in Chinese that Malaysia and China are one family, and State Councilor Wang Yi is my elder brother.
When asked, Hua Chunying said that Foreign Minister Hishamuddin expressed her heart in Chinese, and State Councilor Wang Yi gave him a thumbs up and said, "We are brothers." This warm interaction "allows us to be able to pass the screen." I feel the friendship and enthusiasm between China and Malaysia" and said that this is a vivid portrayal of the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Malaysia.
She said that China and Malaysia are good neighbors that have established a thousand-year friendship, are good partners in the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”, and are good brothers in the fight against the epidemic. Both support sovereign equality and oppose interference in internal affairs, and both are committed to building mutual respect. Fair, just, and win-win international relations.
With the joint efforts of both sides in recent years, China-Malaysia relations have continued to develop, and there is still much to be done for cooperation between the two sides in the future.
Regarding Hishamuddin’s visit, Hua Chunying said that the two sides have always conducted very in-depth exchanges in a friendly atmosphere and reached important consensus.
In the next step, the two sides will launch the China-Malaysia Cooperation High-level Committee to further deepen the docking of development strategies and jointly build the “Belt and Road” with high quality.
The two sides will also discuss the promotion of personnel exchanges under the normalization of the epidemic situation, so that "frequent exchanges" will become the norm for people's exchanges between the two countries, and jointly promote the early entry into force of the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement, and jointly maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea.
She also said that Malaysia will become the second country in the region to carry out joint vaccine production with China after Indonesia. The two sides must act together to resist "vaccine nationalism."
Hua Chunying emphasized that this visit by the foreign ministers of the four Southeast Asian countries once again demonstrated the deep friendship between China and its neighboring countries in Southeast Asia.
"China is committed to working with our neighbors to make our relationship better. It must further enhance our strategic mutual trust and push our relationship to new heights," she said.
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