Thread by @izak_novak

THREAD: Highlights of Chinese remarks at the US-China meeting that happened in Alaska. The quoted speakers are Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi and State Councilor/Foreign Minister Wang Yi. [Minor editing to fit tweets]

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YANG: "The wars in this world are launched by some other countries, which have resulted in massive casualties(...) We don't believe in invading through the use of force, or to topple other regimes through various means, or to massacre the people of other countries"

YANG: "So we believe that 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"

YANG: "The problem is that the United States has exercised long-arm jurisdiction and suppression and overstretched the national security through the use of force or financial hegemony(...) and has also been persuading some countries to launch attacks on China."

YANG: "On human rights, we hope that the United States will do better on human rights(...) The challenges facing the United States in human rights are deep-seated. They did not just emerge over the past four years, such as Black Lives Matter. It did not come up only recently."

YANG: "So the way we see the relationship with the United States is as President Xi Jinping has said– that is, we hope to see no confrontation, no conflict, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation with the United States."

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."

YANG: "The United States itself does not represent international public opinion, and neither does the Western world. Whether judged by population scale or the trend of the world, the Western world does not represent the global public opinion."

YANG: "Because, Mr. Secretary and NSA Sullivan, you have delivered some quite different opening remarks, mine will be slightly different as well."

WANG: "China urges the U.S. side to fully abandon the hegemonic practice of willfully interfering in China’s internal affairs(...) in particular, on the 17th of March, the United States escalated its so-called sanctions on China regarding Hong Kong."

WANG: "We wonder if this is a decision made by the US to try to gain some advantage in dealing with China, but certainly this is miscalculated and only reflects the vulnerability and weakness inside the US. And this will not shake China’s position or resolve on those issues."

*Some more remarks by Wang, and after this point there was a break. A question was asked off-mic and Wang makes some defiant remarks 👇*

WANG: "The Chinese side felt compelled to make this speech because of the tone of the U.S. side. "

WANG: "So was this carefully all planned and was it carefully orchestrated with all the preparations in place? Is that the way that you had hoped to conduct this dialogue?"

WANG: "So let me say the US does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength. The US side was not even qualified to say such things even 20 years or 30 years back, because this is not the way to deal with the Chinese people."

WANG: "So have the Chinese people not suffered enough in the past from the foreign countries?"

WANG: "Well, as long as China’s system is right with the wisdom of the Chinese people, there is no way to strangle China.

Our history will show that one can only cause damages to himself if he wants to strangle or suppress the Chinese people." 👀