Chinese foreign minister calls on Global South to safeguard multilateral trade

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends a meeting with Russia's President at the Kremlin
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Updated 18 April 2025
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Chinese foreign minister calls on Global South to safeguard multilateral trade

  • Wang said the world is again at a critical crossroads

BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on Global South countries to safeguard multilateral trading systems, warning that power politics and “unilateral bullying” are creating divisions, in a statement his ministry released on Friday.
In a written speech to a roundtable meeting in Beijing on Thursday and referred to in the statement, Wang said the world is again at a critical crossroads, urging countries to oppose “unilateral protectionism” and build an open world economy. 


Trump says “it will be done” on getting “Russian threat” away from Greenland

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Trump says “it will be done” on getting “Russian threat” away from Greenland

US President Donald ​Trump said on Sunday that Denmark has not been able to do anything to get the “Russian threat” away from Greenland, and said, “Now it is time, and it will be done!!!“
“NATO has been telling Denmark, for ‌20 years, ‌that “you have to get Russian ‌threat ⁠away ​from ‌Greenland.” Unfortunately, Denmark has been unable to do anything about it,” Trump wrote in a post on the social media website he owns called Truth Social.
The White House, the Danish Presidency in ⁠the European Union, and Denmark’s foreign affairs ministry did ‌not immediately respond to a ‍Reuters’ request ‍for comment.
Trump has repeatedly insisted he ‍will settle for nothing less than ownership of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
Leaders of both Denmark and Greenland have insisted the island ​is not for sale and does not want to be part ⁠of the United States.
Trump on Saturday vowed to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States is allowed to buy Greenland.
The encroaching presence of China and Russia makes Greenland vital to US security interests, Trump has said. Danish and other European officials have pointed out that Greenland is ‌already covered by NATO’s collective security pact.