On Sunday, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Nepali President Bidya Devi Bhandari in the last stop of his diplomatic visit to China s four neighboring countries in Asia.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday visited Afghanistan, becoming the highest level Chinese official to visit the country since Afghanistan Taliban came to power.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida apparently failed to persuade India to take a similar position over the Ukraine crisis as its partners the US, Japan and Australia in the Quad mechanism during his meeting with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Saturday, given that the joint statement published following the meeting did not mention Russia, let alone imposing sanctions against Russia.
If a country wants to gain strong international influence and build a positive global image, it must achieve autonomy in terms of foreign policy. It should proceed from its own national interests and decide its own foreign policy according to the rights and wrongs of the matter, rather than blindly follow and cater to one country against another.
India is reportedly planning to buy Russian oil at discounted prices and even considering the Chinese yuan as a reference currency in an India-Russia payment settlement mechanism, a move that Chinese analysts say represents the growing frustration among world economies over the US-led sanctions against Russia that have rattled global markets.