India, Sept. 15 -- Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has stressed that cooperation was needed to confront global challenges.

Speaking at the joint address after meeting his Slovenian counterpart Tanja Fajon in Ljubljana he said, "Europe should be friends rather than rivals and cooperation is needed to confront global challenges."

Hitting out at the US over its proposal that NATO nations should impose 50 to 100 per cent tariffs on China, he said that China encourages peace talks.

"China does not participate in or plan wars, and what China does is to encourage peace talk and promote political settlement of hotspot issues through dialogue," Yi said.

He also gave a call to promote multilateralism, strengthen multilateral mechanisms, and jo...