The First Session of the 14th National People's Congress held a press conference on the 7th. Foreign Minister Qin Gang answered questions from Chinese and foreign journalists.
Reporters from Global Times and Global.com: The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has lasted for more than a year. Recently, some American and Western media have pointed their finger at China, asking China not to provide fatal aid to Russia, exaggerating the theory of "China's special responsibility", and even thinking that Only China can end this war.
What do you think about this?
Qin Gang: The Ukrainian crisis was originally an avoidable tragedy, but it has developed to this point, and the lesson is painful, which is worthy of deep reflection by all parties.
The Ukrainian crisis has complex historical and practical reasons, and is essentially a major outbreak of contradictions in European security governance.
We always make independent judgments based on the merits of the matter itself.
Between peace and war, choose peace; between dialogue and sanctions, choose dialogue; between cooling down and fighting, choose cooling down.
China is neither the maker nor the party to the crisis, nor has it provided weapons to any party to the conflict.
Why blame China, or even impose sanctions and threats?
We will never accept it!
Qin Gang: A few days ago, we released the document "China's Position on the Political Solution to the Ukraine Crisis", which put forward 12 propositions, including respecting the sovereignty of all countries, abandoning the Cold War mentality, ceasefire and cessation of war, and starting peace talks. The core is to promote peace talks.
Regrettably, however, efforts to promote peace and talks have been undermined repeatedly. It seems that there is an "invisible hand" pushing the conflict to delay escalation, trying to use the Ukrainian crisis to serve some kind of geopolitical conspiracy.
Qin Gang: At present, the Ukrainian crisis has reached a critical juncture. Either cease fire and war, restore peace, and embark on the track of political settlement, or add fuel to the fire, expand the crisis, and drag it into an abyss of out-of-control.
Conflict, sanctions, and pressure cannot solve the problem. What is needed now is calmness, rationality, and dialogue. The process of peace talks should start as soon as possible, and the reasonable security concerns of all parties should be respected, so as to find a strategy to achieve long-term peace and stability in Europe.
(According to the text of the webcast)