Russia & China Reject West’s Self-Centered Unilateralism & North Korea Calls EU "Psychotic" & China Rec!!! WEEY GUUD !!!
Posted: 24 Mar 2021, 02:58
China summons ambassadors of EU, UK over sanctions
Tuesday, 23 March 2021 1:20 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 23 March 2021 1:54 PM ]
US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (L) talks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the US Capitol on March 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)
A Chinese soldier stands guard in front of the European Union (EU)’s office in Beijing, China. (File photo)
China has summoned the ambassadors of the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom to protest recent sanctions imposed on Beijing over allegations of human rights violations in the western state of Xinjiang.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it had summoned EU Ambassador Nicolas Chapuis.
It said in a statement that Vice Foreign Minister Qin Gang told the EU envoy that Brussels should recognize the seriousness of its error and correct it to prevent further damage to ties with China.
In a separate statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Beijing would impose sanctions on several individuals and entities on the EU side that “severely harm China’s sovereignty and interests and maliciously spread lies and disinformation.”
She said that Beijing “urges the EU side to reflect on itself, face squarely the severity of its mistake, and redress it.”
“Otherwise, China will resolutely make further reactions,” she added.
UK Ambassador Caroline Wilson was also summoned over her country’s “unilateral sanctions against China under the pretext of the so-called human rights issue in Xinjiang,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a separate statement.
“China will provide a necessary fair answer to the erroneous actions of the British side,” the statement added.
Beijing has rejected the Western allegations of human rights violations against the ethnic Muslim minority group in far-western Xinjiang, and said the United States and its allies make the false accusations for political purposes. China has also repeatedly warned against interference in its domestic affairs.
The ethnic minority of Uighurs makes up about 45 percent of the population in Xinjiang.
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Russia, China reject West’s self-centered unilateralism: Lavrov
Tuesday, 23 March 2021 10:15 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 23 March 2021 10:23 AM ]
US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (L) talks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the US Capitol on March 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi exchange documents during a signing ceremony following their talks in Guilin, China, on March 23, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia and China are opposed to the West’s self-centered geopolitical games and unilateralism and are doing their utmost to protect their relations from Western threats.
At a joint news conference with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Tuesday, Lavrov said Beijing and Moscow did their “utmost to make sure that” their relations were not threatened by the West.
“We reject zero-sum geopolitical games and reject unilateral, illegitimate sanctions that our Western colleagues resort to more and more often,” the Russian foreign minister said.
He said that the Western states “are unfriendly toward our countries.”
“That also applies to the ways of conducting trade, mutual settlements, and everything else that makes us stronger,” he added.
Earlier, Lavrov told Chinese media that China and Russia needed to work to further reduce their dependence on the dollar and switch to national currencies in bilateral trade.
The US has imposed more than 90 rounds of sanctions on Russia in recent years. The measures have targeted state banks and corporations, the oil and gas sector, and top officials and business tycoons.
Lavrov dismisses ‘vaccine diplomacy’ allegations
At the Tuesday press conference, Lavrov rejected Western allegations that Russia and China were frenetically promoting their COVID-19 vaccines.
He said the West was “trying to portray Russia and China as some kind of adventurers in the field of the so-called vaccine diplomacy.”
“This is absolutely not true,” Lavrov said.
The US accuses China and Russia of using the coronavirus vaccines “to engage with countries in a way where the two are not holding them to the same standards as the US or other countries would hold them to on issues of human rights,” as stated by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki earlier this month.
She also accused Russian intelligence services of working to undermine the US-made Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccines.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said in response that the Kremlin had “always been against politicizing issues related to vaccines.”
The allegations against the two world powers come as COVID-19 vaccines are badly needed across the world amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Russian vaccine, the first to have been developed in the world, has been the target of dismissals by Western media, which have described it as hastily prepared to serve political purposes.
Nevertheless, many world countries, including European states, have authorized Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.
Brussel’s unilateral steps destroy entire EU-Russia ties
The Russian foreign minister said that Russia’s relations with the European Union (EU) had been destroyed as a result of the unilateral steps taken by Brussels against Moscow.
“There are no relations with the European Union as an organization,” Lavrov said, adding that the Kremlin was, nevertheless, open to dialog with the bloc.
“If and when Europeans deem fit to eliminate these anomalies in contacts with their largest neighbor, of course, we will be ready to build up these relations based on equality, the search of balance of interests,” he added.
Lavrov said, however, that Moscow saw “no changes on the Western front, while in the East… we have a very intensive agenda, which is becoming more diverse every year.”
The EU, Germany in particular, has been engaged in a tense dispute with Russia since the West accused Russia of poisoning opposition figure Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent.
EU foreign ministers agreed in December last year to extend sanctions against Russia by another six months. The measures target whole sectors of the Russian economy, including its oil businesses.
Brussels initially imposed sanctions on Russia in 2014 over the conflict in Ukraine and Crimea’s reunification with Russia.
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North Korea denounces EU's 'psychotic way of thinking' after sanctions
Wednesday, 24 March 2021 5:17 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 24 March 2021 5:53 AM ]
US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (L) talks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the US Capitol on March 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)
This picture, taken on March 6, 2021 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 7, 2021, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) taking part in a photo call with participants of the First Short Course for Chief Secretaries of City and County Party Committees in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Via AFP)
North Korea has denounced the European Union (EU)'s "psychotic way of thinking," following the imposition of sanctions by the bloc on its top officials over allegations of human rights violations.
"It seems that an inveterate repugnancy coupled with a psychotic way of thinking has completely degenerated the EU into looking at all matters and phenomena upside down," a spokesperson for North Korea's Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying on Tuesday in response to a question by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The spokesperson said the EU was under the delusion that it can promote human rights despite the incurable trends of racism, racial discrimination, child abuse, and xenophobia prevalent within the bloc.
"It constitutes a part of the stereo-typed policy hostile to the DPRK and a despicable political provocation aimed at infringing upon its sovereignty and interfering in its internal affairs," the spokesperson said, using the abbreviation for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The spokesperson said the sanctions were a "sinister political tool" and "an evil legislation contrived to put pressure on those countries that do not kowtow to EU."
The European Council said on Monday that it would impose sanctions against 11 individuals and four entities in six countries — North Korea, China, Russia, Libya, Eritrea, and South Sudan — for alleged human rights violations.
Those targeted in North Korea were State Security Minister Jong Kyong-thaek, Public Security Minister Ri Yong-gil and the Central Public Prosecutors Office.
North Korea advised the EU to think of renaming itself the "United States of EU and America," and not painfully struggle to highlight its "independent character."
Pyongyang warned Brussels that sticking to anti-North Korea policies would have dire consequences.
Meanwhile, North Korea fired two short-range missiles at the weekend, US and South Korean officials said, but Washington played down the first such tests under President Joe Biden and said it was still open to dialog with Pyongyang.
Jenny Town, director of the 38 North, a US-based website that monitors North Korea, said the latest action appeared "pretty mild."
"My guess is that it has more to do with the joint exercises than anything else," she said, referring to the joint exercises by the US and South Korea.
The military exercises have been scaled back this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The US and its allies are opposed to the North Korean missile and nuclear programs.
Tuesday, 23 March 2021 1:20 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 23 March 2021 1:54 PM ]
US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (L) talks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the US Capitol on March 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)
A Chinese soldier stands guard in front of the European Union (EU)’s office in Beijing, China. (File photo)
China has summoned the ambassadors of the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom to protest recent sanctions imposed on Beijing over allegations of human rights violations in the western state of Xinjiang.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it had summoned EU Ambassador Nicolas Chapuis.
It said in a statement that Vice Foreign Minister Qin Gang told the EU envoy that Brussels should recognize the seriousness of its error and correct it to prevent further damage to ties with China.
In a separate statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Beijing would impose sanctions on several individuals and entities on the EU side that “severely harm China’s sovereignty and interests and maliciously spread lies and disinformation.”
She said that Beijing “urges the EU side to reflect on itself, face squarely the severity of its mistake, and redress it.”
“Otherwise, China will resolutely make further reactions,” she added.
UK Ambassador Caroline Wilson was also summoned over her country’s “unilateral sanctions against China under the pretext of the so-called human rights issue in Xinjiang,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a separate statement.
“China will provide a necessary fair answer to the erroneous actions of the British side,” the statement added.
Beijing has rejected the Western allegations of human rights violations against the ethnic Muslim minority group in far-western Xinjiang, and said the United States and its allies make the false accusations for political purposes. China has also repeatedly warned against interference in its domestic affairs.
The ethnic minority of Uighurs makes up about 45 percent of the population in Xinjiang.
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Russia, China reject West’s self-centered unilateralism: Lavrov
Tuesday, 23 March 2021 10:15 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 23 March 2021 10:23 AM ]
US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (L) talks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the US Capitol on March 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi exchange documents during a signing ceremony following their talks in Guilin, China, on March 23, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia and China are opposed to the West’s self-centered geopolitical games and unilateralism and are doing their utmost to protect their relations from Western threats.
At a joint news conference with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Tuesday, Lavrov said Beijing and Moscow did their “utmost to make sure that” their relations were not threatened by the West.
“We reject zero-sum geopolitical games and reject unilateral, illegitimate sanctions that our Western colleagues resort to more and more often,” the Russian foreign minister said.
He said that the Western states “are unfriendly toward our countries.”
“That also applies to the ways of conducting trade, mutual settlements, and everything else that makes us stronger,” he added.
Earlier, Lavrov told Chinese media that China and Russia needed to work to further reduce their dependence on the dollar and switch to national currencies in bilateral trade.
The US has imposed more than 90 rounds of sanctions on Russia in recent years. The measures have targeted state banks and corporations, the oil and gas sector, and top officials and business tycoons.
Lavrov dismisses ‘vaccine diplomacy’ allegations
At the Tuesday press conference, Lavrov rejected Western allegations that Russia and China were frenetically promoting their COVID-19 vaccines.
He said the West was “trying to portray Russia and China as some kind of adventurers in the field of the so-called vaccine diplomacy.”
“This is absolutely not true,” Lavrov said.
The US accuses China and Russia of using the coronavirus vaccines “to engage with countries in a way where the two are not holding them to the same standards as the US or other countries would hold them to on issues of human rights,” as stated by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki earlier this month.
She also accused Russian intelligence services of working to undermine the US-made Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccines.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said in response that the Kremlin had “always been against politicizing issues related to vaccines.”
The allegations against the two world powers come as COVID-19 vaccines are badly needed across the world amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Russian vaccine, the first to have been developed in the world, has been the target of dismissals by Western media, which have described it as hastily prepared to serve political purposes.
Nevertheless, many world countries, including European states, have authorized Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.
Brussel’s unilateral steps destroy entire EU-Russia ties
The Russian foreign minister said that Russia’s relations with the European Union (EU) had been destroyed as a result of the unilateral steps taken by Brussels against Moscow.
“There are no relations with the European Union as an organization,” Lavrov said, adding that the Kremlin was, nevertheless, open to dialog with the bloc.
“If and when Europeans deem fit to eliminate these anomalies in contacts with their largest neighbor, of course, we will be ready to build up these relations based on equality, the search of balance of interests,” he added.
Lavrov said, however, that Moscow saw “no changes on the Western front, while in the East… we have a very intensive agenda, which is becoming more diverse every year.”
The EU, Germany in particular, has been engaged in a tense dispute with Russia since the West accused Russia of poisoning opposition figure Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent.
EU foreign ministers agreed in December last year to extend sanctions against Russia by another six months. The measures target whole sectors of the Russian economy, including its oil businesses.
Brussels initially imposed sanctions on Russia in 2014 over the conflict in Ukraine and Crimea’s reunification with Russia.
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North Korea denounces EU's 'psychotic way of thinking' after sanctions
Wednesday, 24 March 2021 5:17 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 24 March 2021 5:53 AM ]
US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (L) talks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the US Capitol on March 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)
This picture, taken on March 6, 2021 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 7, 2021, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) taking part in a photo call with participants of the First Short Course for Chief Secretaries of City and County Party Committees in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Via AFP)
North Korea has denounced the European Union (EU)'s "psychotic way of thinking," following the imposition of sanctions by the bloc on its top officials over allegations of human rights violations.
"It seems that an inveterate repugnancy coupled with a psychotic way of thinking has completely degenerated the EU into looking at all matters and phenomena upside down," a spokesperson for North Korea's Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying on Tuesday in response to a question by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The spokesperson said the EU was under the delusion that it can promote human rights despite the incurable trends of racism, racial discrimination, child abuse, and xenophobia prevalent within the bloc.
"It constitutes a part of the stereo-typed policy hostile to the DPRK and a despicable political provocation aimed at infringing upon its sovereignty and interfering in its internal affairs," the spokesperson said, using the abbreviation for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The spokesperson said the sanctions were a "sinister political tool" and "an evil legislation contrived to put pressure on those countries that do not kowtow to EU."
The European Council said on Monday that it would impose sanctions against 11 individuals and four entities in six countries — North Korea, China, Russia, Libya, Eritrea, and South Sudan — for alleged human rights violations.
Those targeted in North Korea were State Security Minister Jong Kyong-thaek, Public Security Minister Ri Yong-gil and the Central Public Prosecutors Office.
North Korea advised the EU to think of renaming itself the "United States of EU and America," and not painfully struggle to highlight its "independent character."
Pyongyang warned Brussels that sticking to anti-North Korea policies would have dire consequences.
Meanwhile, North Korea fired two short-range missiles at the weekend, US and South Korean officials said, but Washington played down the first such tests under President Joe Biden and said it was still open to dialog with Pyongyang.
Jenny Town, director of the 38 North, a US-based website that monitors North Korea, said the latest action appeared "pretty mild."
"My guess is that it has more to do with the joint exercises than anything else," she said, referring to the joint exercises by the US and South Korea.
The military exercises have been scaled back this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The US and its allies are opposed to the North Korean missile and nuclear programs.