Berlin, Brussels These were extraordinarily harsh words from China’s head of state and party leader Xi Jinping. President Xi stormed into Monday, the West seeking to “contain, encircle and comprehensively suppress China”. For years, representatives of the Chinese Foreign Ministry have been criticizing the USA in particular more and more harshly — but the fact that Xi, who usually smiles in public, makes such statements now has a new quality that can be seen as a warning. in Europe.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman wrote on Twitter shortly afterwards that China hoped Europe would achieve “genuine strategic independence”. It is a polite warning to European countries: Do not side with the United States.
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