Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said aggression and expansion is not in the genes of the Chinese nation throughout its 5000-year old history.
Highlights: ‘Aggression and expansion has never been in the genes of the Chinese nation throughout its 5,000 years history’China cannot be another USAfter India’s Galwan Valley, Nepal and South China Sea, China is now eyeing Bhutanq
New Delhi: China has claimed India’s Galwan Valley, encroached land in Nepal, has opened another border dispute with Bhutan but wants the world to believe that it is not expansionist in nature.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has said, “Aggression and expansion has never been in the genes of the Chinese nation throughout its 5,000 years history, and China cannot and will not be another US.”
Yi was speaking in US-China ties when he gave this statement adding that he expects that the US will build a more objective understanding of China and a more rational policy toward the country.
China using COVID-19 to pursue its expansionist agenda
The US and China are locked in a bitter tussle over coronavirus and China’s recent aggressions in the Himalayas and the South China Sea.
Beijing’s belligerence forced the US to shift its troops positioned in Germany to other places with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying that the decision was taken after the US revisited the threats it faced and how they should be thwarted.
Continuing with its expansionist agenda, China created a new border dispute with Bhutan during a virtual meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) where it objected to the grant for Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary (SWS) in eastern Bhutan’s Trashigang district bordering India and China, claiming that the location was disputed.
Similarly, in Nepal, China is using road construction in Tibet to occupy its land and according to a Nepal government report, it may establish outposts at the border in the near future.
According to a list prepared by Nepal’s Survey Department of Agriculture Ministry, China has encroached on 10 places which comprise of nearly 33 hectares of Nepalese land and as per the report, China has also been diverting the flow of rivers to increase its territory.
