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Written by: Zhang Zijie
2020-08-28 05:49
Last update date: 2020-08-28 05:49On August 27th, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Norway, the last stop of his trip to Europe, saying that he was not sure whether the source of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) came from China, saying that everyone should not look at it from a political perspective.
Wang Yi is the first Chinese foreign minister to visit Norway since 2006. He met with Prime Minister Erna Solberg in Oslo and said that the two sides should cherish the relationship between the two countries and hope to achieve mutual benefit in the post-epidemic era. He pointed out that multilateralism is very important to all countries, especially small and medium-sized countries, and emphasized the need to resist unilateralism and bullying.
He also mentioned the epidemic issue later, saying that in the past few months, he received many reports showing that the virus came from different countries, and it was more likely to appear earlier than China. Therefore, the source of the virus and how it broke out should be studied by scientists and medical experts. Politicized or stigmatized. He also said that it is still unknown who is patient zero.
During Wang Yi’s visit to Oslo, many people outside Solberg’s office staged demonstrations to protest Wang Yi’s visit and demanded that the Chinese government stop persecuting the local Uyghurs.
The relationship between Norway and China became tense when the Nobel Committee awarded Liu Xiaobo the Peace Prize in 2010. Beijing even suspended the trade agreement between the two countries and restricted the import of Norwegian salmon. After that, the relationship between the two sides gradually improved. Wang Yi's trip to Europe also coincided with the international community's worries about the situation in Hong Kong. When he visited the Netherlands, Italy and other places earlier, local officials raised the issue of Hong Kong. When he was asked in Norway how China would respond if the Nobel Peace Prize were won by Hong Kong democrats, he warned Beijing that it would reject any attempts to politicize the Nobel Prize.
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