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

• 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.