July 4, 2022 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian hosted a regular press conference
CCTV reporter: Not long ago, at the high-level global development dialogue, leaders of many participating countries said that the global development initiative proposed by China meets the development needs of relevant countries and will continue to support the global development initiative. Can China brief us on the progress of the Global Development Initiative and the next steps?
Zhao Lijian: After President Xi Jinping proposed the global development initiative in September last year, the international community responded positively and enthusiastically. More than 100 countries and many international organizations, including the United Nations, supported the initiative. Nearly 60 countries joined the "Global Development Initiative" established by China on the platform of the United Nations. Group of Friends of Development Initiatives".
As you just said, at the recent high-level dialogue on global development, leaders of many countries spoke highly of the initiative.
They believe that the initiative is highly in line with the urgent development needs of countries, especially developing countries, and provides a feasible path for accelerating the realization of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
At the meeting, President Xi Jinping proposed a series of practical cooperation measures to promote global development. After the meeting, the Chinese side released a list of 32 achievements, which is China's first action to implement the global development initiative.
Leaders at the meeting highly appreciated this and expressed a positive willingness to cooperate.
In the next step, China is willing to work with the international community to actively implement the outcomes of the Dialogue, promote the international community to focus on development issues, increase resource investment in global development cooperation, and join hands with all parties in the global development initiative on poverty reduction, food security, and resistance. We should strengthen practical cooperation in key areas such as epidemics and vaccines, development financing, climate change and green development, industrialization, digital economy, and connectivity in the digital age, build a global development project library, and enhance development knowledge sharing.
The Global Development Initiative adheres to the spirit of openness and inclusiveness of partnership. We welcome countries and international organizations, especially the United Nations agencies, including developed countries, to participate in the initiative and cooperation, so as to bring together the strongest synergy to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Australia-Asia TV: According to reports, at the closing ceremony of the United Nations Ocean Conference on the 1st, the representative of Palau said that representatives of the Pakistani delegation holding "Taiwan passports" were refused to participate in the conference, which was a violation of the sovereignty of Palau. The United Nations should not exclude the 23 million people of Taiwan. The representative of the United States said that the relevant committee has no right to expel the representative of Taiwan from the delegation of Papua New Guinea. What is China's comment?
Zhao Lijian: This is the third time I have responded to this question.
The Taiwan authorities have repeatedly "touched porcelain".
Is "rubbing" a very glorious thing?
There is only one China in the world, and Taiwan is a part of China.
The one-China principle is the basic norm of international relations and the general consensus of the international community.
According to the one-China principle, Taiwan has no right to independently participate in the activities of the United Nations and its specialized agencies and intergovernmental international organizations that are limited to sovereign states.
The above-mentioned principles and consensus will not be changed because individual countries speak out or support the Taiwan authorities.
The failure of the Taiwan authorities' "association" is inevitable.
This self-deprecating and humiliating practice has also been ridiculed by the international community.
Shenzhen TV: According to reports, NASA Administrator Nielsen said in an interview with German media recently that China's space program is a military space program, and it is likely to occupy the moon. China stole ideas and technology from other countries, and its space station's mission is to learn how to destroy other people's satellites. What is China's comment?
Zhao Lijian: It is not the first time that the director of NASA has disregarded the facts and has "sprayed" China.
Some U.S. officials continue to frame and slander China's normal and reasonable outer space cause.
China firmly opposes such irresponsible remarks.
As the director of the US aerospace department, he should be very aware of the "dark history" of the US space program.
The US has played a negative role in creating space junk, provoking an arms race in outer space, and undermining global strategic stability, posing a huge threat to the peaceful use of outer space.
In recent years, the United States has openly defined outer space as a "combat domain", accelerated the establishment of the Outer Air Force and Outer Space Command, and developed and deployed offensive outer space weapons.
The United States has also long passively resisted the negotiation of legal documents on outer space control, and has continuously strengthened its military cooperation in outer space with its allies.
On the other hand, the United States has set up obstacles in space cooperation, arbitrarily sanctioned space agencies of other countries, and introduced laws to restrict space cooperation and exchanges with China.
The international community has long seen through such domineering actions, double-standard practices and hypocritical remarks by the US.
China has always advocated the peaceful use of outer space, opposed the weaponization and arms race in outer space, and actively promoted the building of a community with a shared future for mankind in outer space.
China's exploration of outer space is to meet the legitimate needs of the country's economy, society, technology and security.
The development of China's aerospace industry is achieved entirely through independence and self-reliance, and its rights and achievements cannot be questioned or smeared.
We urge the US to earnestly shoulder its due responsibilities as a major country, seriously review and correct its negative words and deeds in outer space, and make due contributions to maintaining lasting peace and security in outer space.
AFP: The Japanese side has lodged representations about a Chinese warship sailing in the waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands. How does China respond to that?
Zhao Lijian: The Diaoyu Islands and their affiliated islands are China's inherent territory.
The activities of Chinese ships in the nearby waters are legitimate and legitimate, and the Japanese side has no right to make irresponsible remarks.
Kyodo News reporter: This morning, a Russian naval warship also entered the waters adjacent to the relevant ("Senkaku Islands") adjacent waters. Is this a joint operation between China and Russia?
Zhao Lijian: I have just made clear China's relevant position.
This is probably your personal interpretation.
Regarding the actions of the Russian side, if you are interested, please ask you or your colleagues to ask the Russian side.
Reuters: This morning, US Ambassador to China Burns said at a forum that he hoped the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson would stop repeating Russian propaganda, accusing NATO of initiating the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and stop spreading rumors about US biological laboratories. of lies. What is the comment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on this?
Zhao Lijian: It is the US that has always spread false information and lies, not China.
China has always made an objective and fair judgment independently from the historical perspective and right and wrong of the Ukraine issue.
Regarding the issue of the US overseas biological laboratory, including the establishment of a biological laboratory in Ukraine, there are a lot of facts and evidences. The international community is very concerned about this, and the US has the responsibility to give an explanation to the world.
Why does the United States not open Fort Detrick and its overseas biological laboratories for international independent verification?
Why exclusively block the establishment of a verification mechanism for the Biological Weapons Convention?
Reporter from Hubei Radio and TV Station: Recently, the refurbishment yard of the Vientiane South Station of the China-Laos Railway was completed and put into use, marking the interconnection of the China-Laos-Thailand Railway. What is the spokesperson's comment on this?
Zhao Lijian: As you said, the completion and operation of the changing yard of the China-Laos Railway Vientiane South Station marks a more convenient and smooth international logistics channel for China-Laos-Thailand land-sea combined transport.
To the north, the China-Laos Railway can connect multiple hub cities in China and connect with the China-Europe freight train, and to the south can reach Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
Laos has changed from a "land-locked country" to a "land-linked country" and is facing unprecedented development opportunities.
From the end of last year to June 30 this year, the China-Laos Railway has sent 4 million passengers and nearly 5 million tons of cargo, including more than 800,000 tons of cross-border cargo.
More than 20 provinces and cities in China have successively operated cross-border freight trains on the China-Laos Railway, transporting more than 100 kinds of goods such as fruits, photovoltaics, and electronics, covering more than 10 regional countries such as Laos and Thailand.
The China-Laos Railway has increasingly become an accelerator for regional connectivity and a new engine for economic cooperation, and is generally welcomed by countries in the region.
The China-Laos Railway has become a vivid portrayal of the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" between China and ASEAN countries, and a powerful testimony to the joint implementation of global development initiatives.
In the past nine years since the "Belt and Road" initiative was proposed, China has signed cooperation documents on the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" with 149 countries including Laos and 32 international organizations, forming more than 3,000 cooperation projects with an investment scale of nearly 1 trillion US dollars.
Affected by factors such as the new crown epidemic, the recovery of the world economy is difficult, and the challenges faced by developing countries such as lack of investment and shortage of funds are even more prominent.
We welcome more countries in the region to participate in the "Belt and Road" cooperation and share the opportunities and dividends brought by connectivity.
Today, the 7th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers' Meeting was successfully held in Myanmar. China is willing to work with Laos and other member states of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation mechanism to implement the results of the meeting, keep in mind the original intention of mutual benefit and win-win results and seek common development, and join hands to create high-quality joint construction" The "Belt and Road" demonstration zone will bring more benefits to the people of the countries in the region and provide stronger support for the prosperity and stability of the region.
Xinhua News Agency: Not long ago, China successfully hosted the 14th BRICS Summit, which aroused enthusiastic responses at home and abroad. What is China's consideration for the future work of the BRICS presidency?
Zhao Lijian: Not long ago, the 14th BRICS Summit was successfully held. The leaders of the five countries gathered in the cloud to conduct in-depth exchanges and reach broad consensus on strengthening BRICS cooperation, maintaining world peace and promoting common development.
The meeting produced a series of pioneering, leading and institutional achievements, opening a new journey of BRICS cooperation.
The leaders' meeting came to a successful conclusion, but the BRICS "Year of China" is just over halfway through, and the work of the presidency will continue to move forward in an orderly manner.
In the second half of the year, we also plan to hold about 80 conferences and activities. In July alone, we will hold important ministerial-level conferences on communications, anti-corruption, labor and employment, as well as intellectual property, think tanks, media, and other fields and at all levels.
China looks forward to working together with other BRICS parties to implement the outcomes and consensus of the leaders' meeting, further consolidate the BRICS strategic partnership, deepen practical cooperation in various fields, and continuously strengthen mechanism building, so as to inject strong impetus into the realization of high-quality BRICS development.
"People's Daily" reporter: We have noticed that Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs Vulin said in an interview recently that NATO hopes that Serbia will have a conflict with Russia, but Serbia will not do so, nor will it become "NATO's infantry". If NATO really insists that territorial integrity and sovereignty are the most important principles in international politics, then it should apologize for bombing Yugoslavia. What is the spokesperson's comment on this?
Zhao Lijian: The Serbian minister said it well!
His remarks reflect the common aspirations of many countries in the international community.
NATO should apologize, not only Serbia.
In the past few decades, the US-led NATO launched the Kosovo War under the banner of "humanitarian intervention", intervened in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and occupied Afghanistan for two decades.
According to incomplete statistics, the wars initiated and participated by NATO since 2001 alone have killed 900,000 people, including 400,000 civilians, and displaced tens of millions of refugees.
NATO claims to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries and calls itself a defensive organization, but what it does is the exact opposite.
What deserves vigilance is that now NATO is trying to replicate the crisis and camp confrontation created in Europe and other places to the Asia-Pacific region. Countries in this region and even the international community must remain highly vigilant and resolutely say no.
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After the meeting, a reporter asked: A few days ago, a demonstration broke out in Nukus, the capital of the Republic of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan. What is China's comment?
Zhao Lijian: China has noticed what happened in Uzbekistan.
As a friendly neighbor and comprehensive strategic partner of Uzbekistan, China supports the Uzbekistan government in maintaining national stability and believes that under the leadership of President Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan can maintain stability and unity.
According to reports, on June 30, the Ecuadorian government signed a peace agreement with the Ecuadorian Indigenous Federation (Conaie), and the nationwide protests and demonstrations have basically ended. What is China's comment?
Zhao Lijian: China and Ecuador are comprehensive strategic partners.
The Chinese side is pleased to see that all parties concerned in Ecuador have peacefully resolved differences through dialogue and consultation within the framework of the constitution and laws, and maintained social order and stability.