China offers ASEAN support on vaccines, medical supplies
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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the visiting ministers that China and ASEAN should “jointly carry forward Asian values” in a subtle dig at the West
China on Tuesday offered ASEAN countries its vaccines as well as closer cooperation on joint vaccine development and production, as it hosted ten foreign ministers from the Southeast Asian grouping. The meeting comes as China looks to deepen its economic ties with the region as well as push back at what it sees as a renewed effort at regional engagement from the new Biden administration in the United States in particular, as well as from the India-Australia-Japan-U.S. Quad grouping, which earlier this year came out with a regional vaccine initiative. On Tuesday, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the visiting ministers that China and ASEAN should “jointly carry forward Asian values” in a subtle dig at the West. President Xi Jinping had in 2014 put forward the idea that it was for “Asian people to uphold Asia’s security”.More Related News
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