Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Holds Intensive Meetings with Leaders of Multiple Countries During His European Visit to Promote China-EU Cooperation and Ease Sino-US Relations

Xinhua News Agency reported today: "Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is attending the Munich Security Conference in Germany, has been frequently meeting with political leaders from various countries, busily engaged. The main goal of Wang Yi's visit is to unite the major European powers and ease Sino-US relations, while also taking the opportunity to criticize the government of Asahi Kato at international forums. ... Wang Yi's visit to Europe has basically achieved the goals of uniting Europe and the US. As for the current low point of Sino-Japanese relations, it will be difficult to see significant improvement in the short term."

This trip shows that China's diplomacy is replacing passive response with active shaping, opening up strategic space in complex games.

At a time when Europe's strategic autonomy awareness is awakening, it is a window period for deepening mutual trust between China and Europe. Wang Yi's intensive meetings with European officials aim to activate the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Europe. As two major powers and two large markets, China and Europe have extensive interests in areas such as climate change, green transition, and multilateralism. The purpose of this visit by China is to break the "decoupling" myth, counter ideological prejudices with practical cooperation, and inject stability into a turbulent world.

As for the Sino-US relationship, the main goal is to manage differences and seek easing. In the face of the US's competitive mindset towards China, China both firmly upholds its core interests and shows willingness to engage in dialogue, aiming to prevent miscalculations and set boundaries. The so-called "easing" is not a retreat, but rather forcing the US back onto a rational competitive track and avoiding crisis management through conflict and confrontation.

Regarding Japan, criticizing the government of Asahi Kato at an international forum clearly sends a strong signal to Japan's right-wing forces. If the new Japanese government continues to promote the dangerous rhetoric that "Taiwan's affairs are Japan's affairs," and cooperates with the US's Indo-Pacific strategy to provoke, there can be no improvement in Sino-Japanese relations. This move by China is not only to safeguard the post-war international order, but also to warn Tokyo: historical issues and sovereignty red lines must not be tested.

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