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Sunday, March 16, 2025

China promises no hidden agenda to Caribbean

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Angelo Jedidah
8 days ago
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Press Conference held by CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Beijing on Friday

Press Conference held by CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Beijing on Friday

AN­GE­LO JE­DIDI­AH

an­ge­lo.je­didi­ah@guardian.co.tt

The Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na has as­sured Caribbean coun­tries that there is no hid­den agen­da in seek­ing part­ner­ships with re­gion­al coun­tries, promis­ing mu­tu­al ben­e­fit and re­spect.

Speak­ing at a press con­fer­ence in Bei­jing on Fri­day, at­tend­ed by Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­can jour­nal­ists, Chi­nese For­eign Min­is­ter Wang Yi shared that there are no geopo­lit­i­cal cal­cu­la­tions in its co­op­er­a­tion with Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean (LAC) coun­tries.

This mes­sage comes months ahead of the up­com­ing fourth Com­mu­ni­ty of Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CELAC)-Chi­na Min­is­te­r­i­al Fo­rum.

Wang Yi told jour­nal­ists that Chi­na re­mains ded­i­cat­ed to en­sure fair­ness and views the re­gion as equal part­ners, re­fut­ing any claims of at­tempt­ing to con­trol any coun­try or re­gion.

“What peo­ple in LAC coun­tries want is to build their own home, not to be­come some­one’s back­yard; what they as­pire to is in­de­pen­dence and self-de­ci­sion, not the Mon­roe Doc­trine,” the min­is­ter said.

He added that he be­lieves the co­op­er­a­tion be­tween Chi­na and LAC coun­tries has gained wide­spread sup­port due to Chi­na’s re­spect for the re­gion’s peo­ple and its com­mit­ment to ad­dress­ing the needs of these coun­tries as they strive to mod­ernise.

“Un­der the guid­ance of Pres­i­dent Xi Jin­ping and the lead­ers of LAC coun­tries, and boost­ed by the Chi­na-CELAC Fo­rum, we have pro­duced fruit­ful out­comes in build­ing the Chi­na-LAC com­mu­ni­ty with a shared fu­ture and de­liv­ered ben­e­fits to all our peo­ple.”

Chi­na will host this year’s Chi­na-CELAC Min­is­te­r­i­al Meet­ing in the first half of 2025. For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr. Amery Browne at­tend­ed the 3rd CELAC-Chi­na Min­is­te­r­i­al Fo­rum in 2021.

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