US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln is holding a press conference after finishing high-level US-China talks in Anchorage, Alaska on the 19th. Anchorage = Reuters Yonhap News
The U.S. and China, which fought a rampage in Alaska last week, are uniting their forces and clashing head-to-head with simultaneous sanctions and head-to-head countermeasures. As the United States began to rally the European allies on the human rights issue, China and Russia responded strongly, saying, “Politicize the human rights issue and stop interfering with internal affairs.” In this process, the European Union and China exchanged sanctions over the human rights issue of Xinjiang Uyghur and invited the other side’s ambassadors.
US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln made his first visit to Europe after taking office to attend the NATO Ministerial Meeting on the 22nd (local time) and issued a statement condemning China and allies such as Britain and Canada. Earlier, as the EU unveiled its sanctions policy for individuals and institutions in six countries, including China, for human rights violations, the US has gathered a’Western alliance’ to besiege China in earnest. This means that President Joe Biden’s principle of’checking the public with the alliance’ has been realized one after another.
The United States announced a statement of condemnation regarding the suppression of the Uighurs, an Islamic minority ethnic group in Xinjiang in China, together with countries belonging to’Five Eyes’ such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and England. In a statement released in the name of the foreign minister, the five countries said, “We are united by deep and persistent concerns about human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang in China. ) Will ask.”
In particular, it was revealed that “in parallel with EU measures, we will take coordinated actions to send clear messages to human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang”, making it clear that they are in step with the sanctions announced by the EU on the same day. The EU, along with China, imposed sanctions on 11 members of four institutions in six countries, including Russia and North Korea, but revealed that the main goal was China. Since it is the first collective sanction in European countries since the Tiananmen Square in China in 1989, it is highly likely that it will lead to further measures and conflicts beyond human rights, such as sanctions on trade and arms embargo.
Prior to the US-China 2+2 talks on the 18th and 19th, Minister Blincoln visited Korea and Japan on the 15th and 18th to take care of the key alliances in Northeast Asia. On this visit to Europe, private talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, as well as Britain, France, Germany, Italy and foreign ministers are scheduled. It is a move to strengthen the traditional’Atlantic alliance’ centering on’democratic values’ as well as strengthening military and security cooperation. The new Cold War composition of the US and Western Europe versus China and Russia is also a signal of a re-emergence.
China and Russia confronted with a joint statement by the foreign ministers of both countries that the Western world should refrain from politicizing human rights or interfering with domestic issues for this reason. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Affairs Commissioner Wang Yi said in a statement after the meeting that other countries should recognize the legal right of the sovereign state to take its own development path, Reuters reported. Told. They voiced that there is no standard model for democracy. It also announced that he supported the meeting of the permanent members of the UN Security Council for international security.
In contrast, Blincoln stressed that “the sanctions show that multilateral cooperation will continue to protect human rights and to clarify responsibility for the atrocities of the Chinese government and the Communist Party.” Unlike former President Donald Trump’s disregard for the alliance in the “US Priority”, the United States is accelerating the biden-style diplomatic solution using “multilateralism and alliance”.
Washington= Jeong Won Correspondent [email protected]
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