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Yang Jiechi to Tony Blinken: "China has made decisive achievements and important strategic gains in fighting COVID-19…China’s per capita GDP is only one-fifth of that of the United States, but we have managed to end absolute poverty for all people."
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Yang: "The United States has its style—United States-style democracy—and China has the Chinese-style democracy. It is not just up to the American people, but also the people of the world to evaluate how the United States has done in…its own democracy."
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Yang: "It is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advancing its own democracy in the rest of the world. Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States."
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Yang: "In China, according to opinion polls, the leaders of China have the wide support of the Chinese people…The opinion polls conducted in the United States show that the leaders of China have the support of the Chinese people."
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Yang: "We hope that the United States will do better on human rights. China has made steady progress in human rights and the fact is that there are many problems within the United States regarding human rights, which is admitted by the U.S. itself."
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Yang: "The overwhelming majority of American businesses in China have said that China’s business environment is good and nobody has forced them to stay in China. They see a profit coming from their presence in China…That’s why they are staying."
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Blinken and Sullivan: "Just the other day, before our departure, the United States passed these new sanctions. This is not supposed to be the way one should welcome his guests."
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Yang: "On cyber attacks, let me say that whether it’s the ability to launch cyber attacks or the technologies that could be deployed, the United States is the champion in this regard. You can’t blame this problem on somebody else."
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Wang: "It was my bad. When I entered this room, I should have reminded the U.S. side of paying attention to its tone in our respective opening remarks, but I didn’t."
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Wang: "Isn’t this the intention of United States…that it wants to speak to China in a condescending way…? So was this carefully all planned and was it carefully orchestrated with all the preparations in place?…We thought too well of the United States."
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