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Former Australian Prime Minister @MrKRudd interviewing China's Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi for @AsiaSociety.
Rudd is making opening remarks in Mandarin.
1. Sees China work within the framework of rules-based order that we've been developing together.
2. World adjusts and becomes more accommodating of China's values and interests and Chinese leadership becomes more apparent.
3. International machinery works better to preserve open systems.
Rudd disagrees with 4th that we are destined for war.
'How do we take the temp down?'
Wang: Rudd - you are a household name in China, a famous international advocate and you have made an important contribution to friendship between China and Australia. (This through translator)
'There are no insurmountable difficulties or obstacles between us.'
This is not something that we would like to see.'
'The go-it-alone approach has fractured and crippled the international system.'
'And we see McCarthyism resurging and jeopardising normal international exchanges.'
(A reference to Wolf-Warrior diplomacy)
'China follows an independent foreign policy of peace.'
It is not our philosophy to play a zero-sum game and be the winner that takes all.
'China's diplomacy is for equity, having experienced great humiliation in history, China understands how important equity is.'
'China is not a threat to the US.'
'The overwhelming majority of them [nations] do not want to take sides [and risk] being forced into a confrontation.'
'China and the US can come together again to facilitate international cooperation on climate change,' he says, noting Biden's intention to reinclude the US in the agreement.
'If the US-China policy were to remodel or subvert China it would not be achievable it would be Mission Impossible.'
'We shall not allow the law of the jungle to govern our world again.'
Hooray - Looking forward to Australian journalists being granted visas and unmonitored access to China!
#Huawei
On the South China Sea - there has never been a single instance where normal navigation or overflight has been impeded.
Rudd: It would be a wonderful thing if the vaccine could be treated not as an issue of geo politics but as an issue of global common good.
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