No ‘exclusive cliques’ ought to be fashioned: China on first Quad summit

China stated on Monday that no “exclusive cliques” ought to be fashioned because it accused some international locations of attempting to “drive a wedge” amongst regional nations citing the “China threat” and asserted that they’ll “end up nowhere.”
Quad international locations involving the US, India, Australia and Japan held their first digital summit on Friday throughout which President Joe Biden instructed leaders of the coalition {that a} “free and open” Indo-Pacific is crucial to their international locations and vowed that his nation was dedicated to working with its companions and allies within the area to realize stability.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the digital summit alongside Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
“Relevant countries should abandon the Cold War mentality and ideological bias, do not form exclusive cliques and act in a way conducive to solidarity, unity, regional peace and stability,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian instructed a media briefing right here.

He was answering a query in regards to the first Leaders’ Summit of the Quad international locations and the reported remarks by US National Secretary Advisor Jake Sullivan that the 4 leaders mentioned the problem posed by China and stated all 4 believed the democracies may assist compete with autocracy.
“For some time, some countries have been exaggerating the so-called ‘China threat’. China challenges to drive a wedge among regional countries to sow discord between their relations with China,” Zhao stated.
“What they have done is against the trend of times which is peace, development and win-win cooperation and runs counter to the common aspirations of people in the region,” he stated.
“They will gain no support and will end up nowhere,” he stated.
“The state-to-state exchanges and cooperation should be conducive for improving mutual understanding and trust among the countries and should not be targeted against and undermine the interests of third parties,” he stated.
Zhao additionally reacted angrily to reported remarks by US Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin that the aim of the US and its key allies is to make sure that they’ve the capabilities, operational plans and ideas to supply credible deterrence to China or anyone else who needs to tackle America.

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“In the era of globalisation, the practice of forming cliques against specific countries based on ideology is detrimental to the international order,” Zhao stated. “They will gain no support and end up nowhere,” he stated.
“The US should adopt the right mindset, view China and China-US relations in an objective and rational way, stop interfering in China’s internal affairs, work with China, focus on cooperation and manage differences to bring China-US relations back on track for sound and stable development,” he stated.
He stated China has been selling world peace and contributing to the event and defending the worldwide order.
“A growing China would only mean a greater strength for peace. It is an opportunity rather than a challenge to the world. China firmly upholds the international system with the UN at its core and international order based on international law rather than the international order defined by certain countries to save their hegemony,” he stated.
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will go to India this week together with Japan and South Korea, within the first abroad journey of a senior member of the brand new Biden Administration.

This is for the primary time that India has been included within the itinerary within the first abroad journey of a US Defence Secretary.