China urges joint efforts in post-pandemic recovery at G20 despite US agenda

Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives for a G20 foreign and development ministers meeting in Matera, on June 29, 2021. - AFP

BEJING (Global Times): Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday (June 29) attended the G20 foreign ministers' summit via video link, which is expected to enhance key economies' communications and cooperation on economic recovery and jointly fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the US not giving up on selling its anti-China agenda.

At the invitation of Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, Wang attended the meeting via video link in Beijing on Tuesday, where he stressed global anti-epidemic cooperation, multilateralism, openness, global governance and other issues.