West Should Appreciate Russia’s Security Concerns – Chinese Diplomat

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If a country is highly sensitive to its own security issues while ignoring others’ security needs, it will cause a lot of problems and pose a serious threat to the entire international community, according to Chinese Ambassador to Belgium Qu Xing.

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Western powers should take Russia’s legitimate security concerns into consideration, Chinese Ambassador to Belgium Qu Xing told to state news agency Xinhua.

His comments were an unusually public show of understanding from China for the Russian position. China and Russia see eye-to-eye on many international diplomatic issues but Beijing had not been this openly critical of the West before

The diplomat said there were internal and external reasons for the Ukrainian crisis and it stemmed from country’s internal problem. However, without intervention from different powers, the Ukrainian problem would not have transformed into such a serious crisis. Without external intervention from different powers, the Ukrainian problem would not have developed into the serious crisis as it is," he said.

In addition, Qu said that the involvement of the US into the crisis has become a distraction for its foreign policy, including its "re-balanced strategy."

"The United States is unwilling to see its presence in any part of the world being weakened, but the fact is its resources are limited, and it will be to some extent a hard work to sustain its influence in external affairs," Qu stated.

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"The major powers need to seek a win-win situation rather than zero-sum security," he said adding that countries need to rethink the concepts in international affairs and learn from the Ukrainian crisis.

If a country is highly sensitive to its own security issues while ignoring others’ security needs, it will cause a lot of problems and pose a serious threat to the entire international community, according to Qu.

"The West should abandon the zero-sum mentality, and take the real security concerns of Russia into consideration," he said.

Major powers should work together to solve global security problems following the principle of equality, cooperation, and mutual benefits and trust, the diplomat concluded.

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