China News Service, Beijing, February 24 (Reporter Liang Xiaohui) Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying hosted a regular press conference on the 24th.
A reporter asked: US State Department Spokesman Price said on the Ukraine issue that China should respect the principles of national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and China has an obligation to urge Russia to make concessions on the Ukraine issue, but the direction of China-Russia relations is worrying. The joint statement shows that China is trying to use its influence over Russia to achieve the goal of creating a world order between the two countries.
What's your opinion?
Hua Chunying: First, on how to respect national sovereignty and territorial integrity, the US is probably not qualified to tell China what to do.
The Chinese people have a particularly real and profound understanding and feeling of national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Since modern times, China has suffered from the Eight-Power Allied Forces and foreign colonial aggression, and has an unforgettable tragic memory of losing power and humiliating the country.
Just over 20 years ago, the Chinese embassy in the Yugoslavia was bombed by NATO, resulting in the sacrifice of three Chinese journalists and many injuries. NATO still owes the Chinese people a blood debt.
Today, we are still facing the real threat that the United States, together with several of its so-called allies, will wantonly and grossly interfere in China's internal affairs and damage China's sovereignty and security on issues related to Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. China is still the only one that has not realized the motherland A fully unified permanent member of the Security Council.
It is for this reason that China has always resolutely upheld the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and the basic norms governing international relations, resolutely safeguarded its own sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, and resolutely safeguarded international fairness and justice.
In the United States, in less than 250 years since the founding of the country, it has not launched military operations outside the country for less than 20 years. The name of military intervention is sometimes democracy or human rights, and sometimes it simply uses a small bottle of washing powder or makes up a fake news.
Such a country must have a different understanding of respecting national sovereignty and territorial integrity from ours.
The international community has seen this very clearly.
2. As for the U.S. suggestion that Russia has the backing of China to act, I believe that our Russian friends will be very unhappy to hear such a statement.
Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council and an independent power. The Russian side formulates and implements its own diplomatic strategy entirely based on its own judgment and national interests.
I must also stress that Sino-Russian relations are based on non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of any third party. It draws ideological lines with the US side, gangs up to engage in "small circle" and bloc politics, and creates confrontation and division. s difference.
China is not interested in, and has no intention of following, the Cold War mentality of either friend or foe and the so-called "alliance" and "small circle".
As for the Sino-Russian joint statement, it is suggested that the U.S. side read and study it carefully.
China and Russia strengthen strategic communication and coordination, firmly uphold the international system in which the United Nations plays a core coordinating role in international affairs, and firmly uphold the international order based on international law, including the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, which are precisely the manifestations of responsible major powers. , is a positive factor in maintaining international strategic security and stability.
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