Liu Jinsong (pictured below) serves as director-general of the Asian Affairs department at the ministry. вЂњAs a Bangladeshi proverb puts it, вЂa cock is bold on his own dunghill.вЂ™ As a result, it will only bring disgrace to itself, and at the same time undermine the regional cooperation framework and createвЂ‚bloc confrontation.вЂќ вЂcentrismвЂ™ and вЂexceptionalism,вЂ™ the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement issued Thursday. Indo-Pacific strategy, AUKUS, the Quad grouping and the latest Indo-Pacific Economic Framework is U.S. This time, the Chinese admonition was saltier, and it came via a foreign ministry statement issued about a Wednesday meeting between senior Chinese foreign ministry official Liu Jinsong and BangladeshвЂ™s envoy in Beijing, Mahbub uz Zaman. ChinaвЂ™s warning at that time provoked an unusually strong rebuke from Bangladeshi Foreign Minister A.K. In May 2021, ChinaвЂ™s envoy to Dhaka said that bilateral ties could be вЂњsubstantially damagedвЂќ if the South Asian country joined the four-nation U.S.-led Quad grouping, although there had been no sign of Dhaka wanting to join it or be invited. This was ChinaвЂ™s second apparent warning to Bangladesh in a little over a year. Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined in a speech last week.

Bangladesh should reject a вЂњcold war mentality and bloc politics,вЂќ China told DhakaвЂ™s ambassador this week as it criticized WashingtonвЂ™s policy to contain Beijing that U.S.

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