CHINA DENIES INTERERFERING IN BANGLADESH'S FORIGN POLICY

  • 12/05/2021

China has denied interfering in Bangladesh's foreign policy after Beijing's envoy in Dhaka, Li Jiming, warned Dhaka against joining the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) - a security alliance between India, the US, Japan and Australia."It is definitely not China that intervenes in other countries' internal affairs in South Asia," reported South China Morning Post (SCMP) quoted Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying as saying on Wednesday.This comes after Beijing's envoy in Dhaka, Li Jiming, on Monday said the countries' relationship would suffer "substantial damage" if Bangladesh were to join the alliance alongside India, Japan, US and Australia. On Tuesday, Bangladeshi Foreign Minister A. K. Abdul Momen had said that his country had been following a "non-aligned" and "balanced" foreign policy and Beijing should not interfere.

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