Xi Jinping also called for measures to speed up the modernization of the country’s defense and armed forces.
Beijing:
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday that China will never allow its sovereignty, security and development interests to be undermined, adding that the Chinese people should not be taken lightly.
Any act of unilateralism, monopoly and intimidation would not work and only lead to a dead end, President Jinping said in a speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
“Let the world know that” the Chinese people are now organized and should not be taken lightly, “Xi said, quoting Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People’s Republic of China.
Xi spoke of the 70th anniversary of the deployment of Chinese troops to the Korean Peninsula to help North Korea fight the United Nations and South Korean forces led by the United States during the 1950-53 war.
Xi did not refer directly to today’s United States, whose ties with China have fallen to their lowest level in decades amid disputes with President Donald Trump’s administration.
The world‘s two largest economies have clashed over issues ranging from commercial, technological and security rivalry to human rights and the coronavirus.
Xi Jinping also called for measures to speed up the modernization of the country’s defense and armed forces. “Without a strong army, there can be no strong homeland,” he said.
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