French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot will pay a visit to China on Thursday and Friday, during which he will hold talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on a broad range of issues, a Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Monday.
Guo Jiakun, the spokesman, made the announcement at a press briefing in Beijing.
"At the invitation of Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot will visit China from March 27 to 28. The upcoming visit will be Foreign Minister Barrot's first visit to China after coming into office. During his visit, Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold talks with him to exchange views on following through on the two presidents' common understandings, advancing China-France relations and China-EU relations, and other topics of common interest," Guo said.
"This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations. The international landscape we are facing is an increasing mix of turbulence and transformation with rising instability and uncertainty. China and France are permanent members of the UN Security Council and each other's comprehensive strategic partner. It is imperative for us to enhance strategic communication and contribute to world peace, stability and development," he said. "Through this visit, China hopes to work with France to consolidate political mutual trust, uphold openness and win-win, promote solidarity and coordination, safeguard multilateralism, jointly guard against the undertows of unilateralism and the law of the jungle, and inject more certainty to the world," said the spokesman.
French foreign minister to visit China: spokesman
French foreign minister Barrot to visit China in late March: spokesman
French foreign minister Barrot to visit China in late March: spokesman
China's development has never been a "threat" to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Friday.
Some Western media and think tanks are peddling so-called "China Shock 2.0," saying that "China is achieving fast development in high-tech sectors such as renewable energy and AI and relies on foreign markets to absorb its overcapacity, thus reducing the market share of developed countries and sending more serious shock waves to the global economy compared with the era of traditional manufacture industry," while there are foreign commentators saying that the "China Shock 2.0" argument ignores the genuine innovation occurring within the Chinese industrial ecosystem and that Chinese export is the exact booster of the global economy that is needed in the turbulent period and more indispensable than ever.
Commenting on that, Lin said: "From the world's factory to the world's market and innovation powerhouse, China's development is achieved through strong performance driven by innovation and brings tangible cooperation opportunities and space to the world. High-quality Chinese products represented by the 'old three' of textiles, furniture and home appliances have stabilized the global industrial and supply chain, lowered the living cost of global consumers and eased the inflationary pressure worldwide. China's green production capacity represented by the 'new three' of electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels has bridged the gap between supply and demand in global green development and bolstered the global energy transition and low-carbon development. Moreover, China's high-tech products represented by the 'new new three' of robots, AI and innovative drugs have broken high-tech barriers and monopoly and enabled people in more countries to access affordable new technologies," said the spokesman.
"Openness and cooperation bring about progress and win-win result. China's development has never been a 'threat' to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries. What really creates 'shocks' to the world has never been the innovation of Chinese companies and efficiency of Chinese industrial capacity, but protectionist moves of setting up barriers, decoupling and severing industrial and supply chains. China will stay committed to high-standard opening up, defend the multilateral trading system and provide more certainty and new impetus to the world economy with its own steady development," said Lin.
China's development never a threat: FM spokesman
