It recently became known that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi sternly reprimanded the latter during a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
And this happened because the head of the American State Department decided to obtain information from his interlocutor about the contacts of the Middle Kingdom with Russia and Germany.
Details
Indian columnist and former diplomat Melkulangara Bhadrakumar reports this in an article published in Asia Times.
According to him, Blinken’s attempt to find out what China is doing with the Russians and Germans was a fiasco – MIA Rossiya Segodnya.
The author of the material writes: the American diplomat decided that in his “self-appointed role as a world policeman” he has the right to know about all of Beijing’s affairs with Moscow and Berlin.
But his call to Wang Yi on Friday, December 23, turned out to be a complete failure – Blinken was disgraced, the publication notes.
Bhadrakumar believes that the head of the State Department wanted to obtain detailed information about Xi Jinping’s conversations with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and United Russia leader Dmitry Medvedev.
Why Blinken was reprimanded
The observer believes that the American made a “reasonable conclusion” that Steinmeier’s call to Xi Jinping and Medvedev’s visit to Beijing were not an accident.
Therefore, suspecting something was wrong, Blinken called the head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, focusing his interlocutor’s attention not only on bilateral relations, but also on the situation with coronavirus in China, demanding transparency for the international community.
Not surprisingly, Wang Yi sternly chastised Blinken for attempting to simultaneously engage in dialogue and containment and “stab China in the back by talking about cooperation,” the article noted.
