On September 12, 2021 local time, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with reporters after a meeting with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Brasokun in Phnom Penh.

A reporter asked that 20 years after the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York, the United States, terrorism still poses a serious challenge to world peace and development. How does China view the current international counter-terrorism situation.

  Wang Yi said that 20 years have passed since the "September 11" incident that shocked the world.

First of all, we must once again express our deep condolences to the people who lost their precious lives in that catastrophe.

  Wang Yi pointed out that terrorism is the common enemy of mankind, regardless of national borders and races, and there is no difference between good and bad.

No matter what form it appears, no matter when and where, it must be resolutely cracked down.

Practice in the past 20 years has proved that anti-terrorism needs to be consistent, both symptoms and root causes need to be addressed, and the international community needs to work together.

Selective anti-terrorism will eventually reap its own results. Double standards are inconsistent with international axioms. Linking with specific ethnic groups and religions will only encourage discrimination and prejudice.

  Wang Yi emphasized that looking around the world today, the scourge of terrorism has not been eliminated, the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still raging, the threat of climate change to the environment is becoming increasingly urgent, and drug smuggling crimes continue to spread in various countries.

We are facing more and more global challenges, and we urgently need to carry out a global response.

More than ever, the international community needs to work together to overcome difficulties together.

The world is a global village, and mankind is a community with a shared future.

At a time when the unity and cooperation of countries are most needed, advocating division is a reversal of history, provoking confrontation goes against the trend of the times, and hype about the "new cold war" will surely fall into the "old morrow."

The correct choice is for countries in the world to join hands to defend the international system with the United Nations as the core, jointly maintain the international order based on international law, practice true multilateralism, overcome all kinds of global challenges, and create mankind. A better future for society.