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March 7, 2023

Chinese Leaders Condemn U.S. Policy of "Containment, Encirclement and Suppression"
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U.S. House Speaker Kevin Mc Carthy is planning to meet Taiwan's
president in the coming weeks when she visits California. The Financial
Times reports Tsai Ing-wen convinced Mc Carthy to meet her on U.S. soil
rather than in Taipei to avoid an aggressive Chinese military response.
In Beijing, China's new Foreign Minister Qin Gang condemned the U.S.
stance over Taiwan Tuesday in his first news conference since taking
office.

Qin Gang: "The Chinese people have every right to ask: Why does the U.S.
talk at length about respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity on
Ukraine while disrespecting China's sovereignty and territorial
integrity on the Taiwan question? Why does the U.S. ask China not to
provide weapons to Russia while it keeps selling arms to Taiwan?"

Those remarks came as Chinese President Xi Jinping directly accused the
United States of suppressing China's development Monday in what The Wall
Street Journal described as an "unusually blunt rebuke of U.S. policy."
Xi said, "Western countries - led by the U.S. - have implemented
all-round containment, encirclement and suppression against us, bringing
unprecedentedly severe challenges to our country's development." 


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