Beijing promotes anti-'bullying' plan

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Global South nations that "unilateral bullying" was hurting a rules-based world, as Beijing kept up the diplomatic pressure on US President Donald Trump to roll back his punitive trade tariffs.

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Power politics and unilateral bullying were undermining international rules and creating divisions and confrontations, Mr Wang told a roundtable of developing country diplomats and scholars, according to a statement released by the foreign ministry yesterday. In a speech delivered to the event on Thursday, Mr Wang also said the world was at a critical crossroads, and urged countries to oppose "unilateral protectionism". He did not name the US directly in his comments.