Chinese President Xi Attacks Calls For Technology Blockades

Xi Jinping addresses a virtual summit of world political parties in Beijing. He renewed a call to work for ‘a shared future for mankind’ and said any country engaged in ‘developmental decoupling’ should be rejected. Photograph: Xinhua  

The Guardian/Reuters: Xi Jinping urges countries to confront ‘technology blockades’ in swipe at US  

Chinese president tells summit involving political parties of 160 nations that any country stopping another’s development must be opposed 

The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has urged political parties worldwide to oppose any country that engages in “technology blockades” – an allusion to the US, which views China as its strategic competitor. 

As US president Joe Biden’s administration has sought support from like-minded democracies including the European Union and Japan to coordinate a tougher stance against China, Beijing has doubled down on seeking support and affirmation from friendly nations such as North Korea and Serbia.  

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Update #1: China's Xi attacks calls for technology blockades -- ABC News/AP  

Update #2: China's Xi rips calls for 'technological blockades' -- The Hill  

WNU Editor: You can tell from the above remarks by President Xi that banning Chinese companies like Huawei are having an impact. But it is hard to feel sorry for him. China runs a surveillance state using the technologies that are present in the products that they want to market and sell to the rest of the world. And China's reassurances that they will not use these technologies to spy on other countries is convincing no one.

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