Chinese FM meets with Harvard professor Allison in Germany's Munich

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday met with Graham Allison, a professor at Harvard University, on the sidelines of the ongoing Munich Security Conference in Germany.

Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said that as the world today is witnessing transformation and turbulence, and changes unseen in a century are unfolding at a faster pace, China must maintain firm strategic resolve, remain fully committed to managing its own affairs well, and vigorously advance Chinese modernization.

Wang further said that China should take on the responsibilities and obligations as a major country, continue to inject greater certainty into the world, and play a constructive role in promoting global peace and stability.

He said China will work with like-minded countries to jointly uphold the basic norms governing international relations based on the UN Charter, push for democracy in international relations, and advocate an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization.

On China-U.S. relations, Wang reiterated that China's policy toward the United States has remained consistent and stable, and China will continue to deal with the the evolution and development of China-U.S. relations and push for healthy and stable development of bilateral ties with the guidance of the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation put forward by President Xi Jinping.

In an interview with the China Global Television Network (CGTN) after his meeting with Wang, Allison said he was "cautiously optimistic" about U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks on forging a successful relationship with China, but hoping that China will play a constructive role in resolving the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. "I'm optimistic, cautiously optimistic about the Trump administration, about President Trump himself and the relationship with China. If you look and see all the things he said during the campaign, he has a very different conception of China and the U.S. relationship with China. So I'm hopeful that even in the not too distant future, we'll see China as a participant in what will ultimately be a peace agreement of some sort that will bring an end to the war in Ukraine," Allison said.

Chinese FM meets with Harvard professor Allison in Germany's Munich

Chinese FM meets with Harvard professor Allison in Germany's Munich

Chinese FM meets with Harvard professor Allison in Germany's Munich

Chinese FM meets with Harvard professor Allison in Germany's Munich

Russia said on Friday that its armed forces had struck Ukrainian targets including military and energy facilities, while Ukraine reported repelling multiple Russian offensives on the same day.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said in its daily report that Russian forces had conducted strikes on Ukrainian military and energy facilities, as well as troop deployment points.

Over the past week, the Russian military shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 fighter jet and destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned boat. It also took control of two settlements in the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine and the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, according to the report.

Also on Friday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported 154 battles along the front lines over the past day.

According to the report, Ukrainian forces launched strikes on multiple key Russian targets. They repelled numerous Russian attacks in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions in eastern Ukraine, while also destroying Russian military equipment and weapons.

Russia claims hitting Ukrainian targets, Ukraine reports repelling Russian offensives