Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Tuesday for stronger global governance and renewed efforts to bring about peace in Ukraine and the Middle East as part of China’s month-long presidency of the UN Security Council.
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“China supports all efforts conducive to peace talks,” Wang, in New York at United Nations headquarters, told the council, adding that Gaza and the West Bank were “not a bargaining chip in political trade-offs”.
Wang’s New York visit intended to highlight Beijing’s support for multilateralism, a key theme of its revolving Security Council presidency.
His message was similar to others he has delivered in recent days on several European stops, contrasting China’s “consensus-based” approach with the singular US focus on “America first” issues under Donald Trump’s second administration.
“Countries are interdependent and share the same future, and no country can go it alone,” Wang told reporters.
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“We must not allow the strong to rule the weak, still less revert to the law of the jungle.”