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The Star
29-05-2025
- Business
- The Star
2025 China-Central Asia Media Cooperation Forum held in Astana
ASTANA, May 29 (Xinhua) -- The 2025 China-Central Asia Media Cooperation Forum was held Thursday in Astana, Kazakhstan, with the theme of building a closer China-Central Asia community with a shared future. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev sent a congratulatory letter to the forum. Tokayev said in the letter that the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping has won wide recognition from the international community as a strategic concept to promote global cooperation. "Kazakhstan attaches great importance to developing friendly relations with China," Tokayev said. "This forum aims to deepen the integration and cooperation between China and Central Asian countries. It is an important event based on consensus and trust in the media field and dedicated to strengthening partnerships. I wish the forum a complete success and fruitful achievements!" The participating guests expressed the belief that media exchanges are an important part of the relations between China and Central Asia. Media outlets from China and Central Asian countries should grasp the trend of the times, expand cooperation, jointly tell stories of friendly cooperation, and contribute wisdom and strength to building a closer China-Central Asia community with a shared future. The forum was jointly hosted by China's People's Daily and the Kazakh Presidential Radio and Television Administration. More than 200 media representatives, officials, experts, scholars, and business representatives from China and Central Asian countries attended the event. During the forum, the launching ceremony of the "2025 China-Central Asia Media Cooperation Forum Photo Exhibition" and the "China-Central Asia Media Joint Interview on High-Quality Belt and Road Initiative Cooperation" were also held.
The Star
28-04-2025
- Business
- The Star
China, Central Asia vow to uphold multilateralism
ALMATY: China and all five of its Central Asian neighbors have reached fresh consensus and made productive action plans for shoring up free trade, building up connectivity and upholding multilateralism, as their senior diplomats met on Saturday (April 26) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, for the sixth China-Central Asia Foreign Ministers' Meeting. The senior diplomats engaged in in-depth discussions on advancing China-Central Asia cooperation in various aspects. The meeting was expected to pave the way for the second China-Central Asia Summit, which will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan, in June. The gathering sent a strong message of renewed unity among the six nations to jointly reject unilateralism and protectionism amid lingering tariff wars and trade wars initiated by Washington, officials said. The China-Central Asia mechanism was launched in 2020, and the first China-Central Asia Summit was held in 2023 in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. All members of the mechanism exchanged views on documents to be signed at the upcoming summit, and they vowed further coordination to make the summit a great success, according to a joint statement about the Saturday meeting released by China's Foreign Ministry. While addressing the meeting, Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Murat Nurtleu said, "The upcoming meeting of leaders will open a new milestone of eternal friendship and prosperity." The six countries are "creating all conditions" for the China-Central Asia mechanism to "become a flagship among the mechanisms of (Central Asia Plus)", the newspaper Astana Times quoted Nurtleu as saying. China is Central Asia's top trading partner and a major source of investment. At the meeting, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that China will unswervingly advance high-level opening-up and "seek common development with neighboring countries". He noted that the United States has imposed arbitrary tariffs on more than 180 countries, infringing upon their legitimate rights and interests. China has stepped forward and taken necessary countermeasures "not only to defend its own legitimate rights and interests, but also to safeguard international rules and order as well as international fairness and justice", Wang said. Regarding trade and production, the meeting's joint statement said that "the (attending) parties reaffirm their support for multilateralism and the rules of international trade, do not approve of the practice of unilateral protectionism, and will strengthen coordination and form a united position in this regard in order to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests". The six nations welcomed the holding of import and export exhibitions as well as the rolling out of business and investment activities among them. In addition, they underlined the necessity to "strengthen investment cooperation within the framework of the mechanism, expand industrial cooperation, ensure the stability of production and supply chains, and enhance efficiency", the joint statement said. According to China's General Administration of Customs, China's total trade with the five Central Asian countries reached US$77.132 billion in the first ten months of last year. In the first quarter of this year, China's total trade with the five countries increased 6.9 per cent year-on-year, Xinhua News Agency reported on April 18. Han Chunlin, China's ambassador to Kazakhstan, noted recently that China has signed cooperation documents with all five Central Asian countries on co-building the Belt and Road, "setting a benchmark in the global arena". Regarding the joint building of a community with a shared future, Han wrote in an article this month in People's Daily that "China and Central Asian countries respect one another's path of development of independent choice, firmly support one another in core interests related to national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and resolutely oppose interference from outside". On behalf of Beijing, Foreign Minister Wang put forward a five-point proposal at the meeting on Saturday for deepening China-Central Asia cooperation. It calls for being firm in upholding good faith and fostering harmony; sticking to mutually beneficial cooperation; further advancing institutional development; adhering to fairness and justice; and being firm in friendship for generations. "All attending parties agreed that China serves as a stabilizing force in a turbulent world and has demonstrated leadership in supporting multilateralism," China's Foreign Ministry said in a news release on Saturday. The five Central Asian countries said they are ready to strengthen the synergy between their national development strategies and the Belt and Road Initiative. The five nations are also ready to further jointly combat the "three evil forces" of terrorism, extremism and separatism, and transnational crime in order to maintain regional peace and stability, according to the nations' diplomats. - China Daily/ANN
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
China foreign minister says Trump's tariffs reveal 'extreme egoism' as he speaks out against protectionism
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday that Beijing backs international rules when it comes to tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump and that the U.S. levies show "extreme egoism." The foreign minister made the comments while he was in Kazakhstan for a China-Central Asia foreign ministers meeting. Wang stressed that Beijing opposes protectionism amid the trade war with the U.S. sparked by Trump's tariffs on China and many other countries. He explained that China would look for solidarity with other countries regarding the tariffs, noting that Beijing would uphold multilateralism to "inject stability into the world." China Accuses Us Of 'Bullying' The World With Tariffs At Un Meeting Trump's tariffs reveal "extreme egoism" and the bullying of certain countries, Wang said. Read On The Fox Business App In an interview published on Friday, Trump claimed that tariff negotiations with China were underway, although Beijing denied any such negotiations happening. China has also previously accused the U.S. of "bullying" other countries through its trade war, including earlier this week at a United Nations Security Council Arria-formula meeting on "The Impact of Unilateralism and Bullying Practices on International Relations." Trump Hints At Cutting China Tariffs 'Substantially' From 145% "Under the guise of reciprocity and fairness, the U.S. is playing a zero-sum game, which is essentially about subverting the existing international economic and trade order by means of tariffs, putting U.S. interests above the common good of the international community and advancing hegemonic ambitions of the U.S. at the cost of the legitimate interest of all countries," Chinese U.N. Ambassador Fu Cong said in his opening remarks. Fu also praised China for its "decisive countermeasures" after facing what he described as "U.S. abuse of tariffs." Reuters contributed to this article source: China foreign minister says Trump's tariffs reveal 'extreme egoism' as he speaks out against protectionism
AsiaOne
26-04-2025
- Business
- AsiaOne
China foreign minister says US tariffs show 'extreme egoism', World News
HONG KONG — China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing stands on the side of international rules on US-imposed tariffs and opposes protectionism, the Foreign Ministry on Saturday (April 26). Speaking on the sidelines of a China-Central Asia foreign ministers meeting in Kazakhstan, Wang said Beijing would seek solidarity with other countries on the tariff situation and exposes "extreme egoism" and the bullying of certain countries, the ministry said in a statement. US President Donald Trump asserted in an interview published on Friday that tariff negotiations were under way with China, but Beijing denied any talks were taking place, the latest in a series of conflicting signals over what progress was being made to de-escalate a trade war threatening to sap global growth. Wang, meeting with Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov, said China would seek solidarity with other countries and would uphold multilateralism to "inject stability into the world". [[nid:717140]]
Business Recorder
26-04-2025
- Business
- Business Recorder
China foreign minister says US tariffs show ‘extreme egoism'
HONG KONG: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing stands on the side of international rules on U.S.-imposed tariffs and opposes protectionism, the Foreign Ministry on Saturday. Speaking on the sidelines of a China-Central Asia foreign ministers meeting in Kazakhstan, Wang said Beijing would seek solidarity with other countries on the tariff situation and exposes 'extreme egoism' and the bullying of certain countries, the ministry said in a statement. China exempts some goods from US tariffs to limit trade war pain U.S. President Donald Trump asserted in an interview published on Friday that tariff negotiations were under way with China, but Beijing denied any talks were taking place, the latest in a series of conflicting signals over what progress was being made to de-escalate a trade war threatening to sap global growth. Wang, meeting with Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov, said China would seek solidarity with other countries and would uphold multilateralism to 'inject stability into the world'.
