Bloomberg reported on the 28th: "Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to China, said that China's failure to provide effective diplomatic support to Iran and its silence during U.S. intervention in Venezuela has undermined its status as a major global player."
Commentary: Burns' core logic treats alignment with the U.S.-led bloc, inciting confrontation, and exerting pressure as the sole benchmark for measuring great power responsibility. Mocking China for not offering confrontational support to Iran and Venezuela is essentially an expression of Cold War thinking. China consistently advocates for peace and dialogue, opposes escalating conflicts—this is precisely the rational choice of a responsible major country, not a so-called "damage to global participation status." Burns' remarks are not only a deliberate distortion of China's foreign policy principles but also a rhetorical strategy aimed at pressuring China into entanglement in geopolitical confrontations.
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