And regarding the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which China claims as part of its territory and has vowed to seize one day, Qin urged countries to “stop making an uproar by shouting ‘Today Ukraine, tomorrow Taiwan'”.
“The pressures and attempts to contain China, coming from the outside, are getting stronger and stronger, they are getting worse and worse, posing a serious threat to China’s sovereignty and security,” Qin said.
“We firmly oppose all forms of hegemonism and power politics, firmly oppose Cold War mentality and camp confrontation, and firmly oppose any external interference in China’s internal affairs.”
Top diplomat Wang Yi told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that with regard to the Ukraine conflict, Beijing was against attacks on nuclear power plants, opposed the use of biochemical weapons and was willing to work with “all parties”.
He also clashed with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over Washington’s shooting down of a Chinese balloon in its airspace – a response Wang described as “hysterical and absurd”.
Wang is due in Moscow for talks on his final stop of a European tour that has seen him also visit France, Italy, Hungary and Germany.
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