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 source: Journal de Montreal/AFP

Monday, January 25 2021 08:24

translation: GoogleTranslate/doxa-louise

Chinese President warns of "a new cold war"

Beijing | Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Monday against a "new cold war" which can only lead to "a dead end", addressing by video  the World Economic Forum in Davos. 

Without ever naming the United States, Xi has positionned himself as a defender of multilateralism and globalization, as he had already done in this same forum four years ago, just before the coming  to power of Donald Trump.

Less than a week after Joe Biden's arrival at the White House, the Beijing strongman appeared to warn the latter against a continuation of the China policy of his predecessor which had made China America's number one rival, especially at the commercial and technological levels.

The Communist regime fears in particular that Joe Biden may want to unite the Western countries in a common front of opposition.

"Building clans or starting a new cold war, rejecting, threatening or intimidating others, enforcing decoupling, disrupting supply chains or sanctions in order to cause isolation will only push the world into division and even confrontation, ”Xi Jinping warned. "And such confrontation would be a dead end."