Days after outgoing Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi vowed to “correct the course” in China-US relations, China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang praised the American people after resigning as Chinese envoy to Washington DC.
“I have been deeply impressed by the number of hardworking, friendly and talented Americans I have met,” Qin, who succeeds Wang Yi as China’s new foreign minister, said in a tweet on Tuesday, adding that he had “made many friends.” . throughout the United States.”
Qin said he will continue to “support the growth of China-US relations” and promote peace and development.
China-US ties: improving or declining?
Bilateral ties between the US and China are reported to have improved since the talks between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in November.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s scheduled visits to China in 2023 are expected to add another touch of softened diplomacy between Beijing and Washington DC.
Bilateral ties between the United States and China hit rock bottom after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August. Following this, China conducted unprecedented military exercises around the autonomous island nation it claims as its own, violating Taipei’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) regularly since August.
Qin Gang’s restraint on the US and Wang Yi’s “correct course” tone
Qin Gang, during his time in Washington as a Chinese envoy, has ridden a Tesla with Elon Musk, while delivering moderated messages over heated debates.
Qin succeeds Wang Yi, who was recently promoted to head the Communist Party’s Central Foreign Affairs Commission for the last weekend of 2022. On January 1, Wang Yi vowed to “correct the course” in US-US ties and Chinese.
“(We will implement) the agreements reached by the top leaders of the US and China, seek to establish the guiding principles of Sino-US relations and the right course (in bilateral relations),” Wang wrote in an article published on 1 January 2023. in Qiushi, the flagship magazine of the ruling Communist Party of China.
In Quishi’s article, Wang Yi was quoted as director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission’s general office, the first public confirmation that he took over as China’s new foreign policy chief, replacing Yang Jiechi, who resigned from the age of 72 years.
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