Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday reiterated his nation’s longtime policy of multilateralism as he urged world leaders at the United Nations that disputes among countries “need to be handled through dialogue and cooperation.”
Gatekeepers News reports that Xi’s remarks came hours after the United States President Joe Biden said he didn’t have the intention of starting a “new Cold War”. The American President was also reacting to a comment made at the weekend by U.N Secretary-General, António Guterres, that both Washington and Beijing need to make sure their differences and tensions don’t derail their 42-year-old relationship and cause problems for the rest of the planet.
“One country’s success does not have to mean another country’s failure,” Xi said in a prerecorded speech to the U.N. General Assembly’s leaders’ meeting in New York. “The world is big enough to accommodate common development and progress of all countries.”
Critics believe China’s actions are usually opposite multilateralism and international cooperation it canvasses in public forums.
Xi didn’t spare the U.S as he made comments that were clearly aimed at Washington. He criticized nations that would fiddle around in the affairs of others.
“Recent developments in the global situation show once again that military intervention from the outside and so-called democratic transformation entail nothing but harm,” he said, an apparent reference to events in Afghanistan last month after the U.S. military withdrawal.
Gatekeepers News reports a deputy Chinese premier was earlier scheduled to speak with the world leaders on Friday, but the decision to slot in the country’s supreme leader to Tuesday’s first-day docket, hours after Biden’s remarks was unexpected.
Biden, earlier on Tuesday, said: “We are not seeking a new Cold War or a world divided into rigid blocs.”
“The United States is ready to work with any nation that steps up and pursues peaceful resolution to shared challenges even if we have intense disagreements in other areas,” he added.
