Kuala Lumpur, July 12 -- Slamming the US tariffs, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, during the ASEAN summit in Malaysia said that openness is what brings progress, while closure leads to backwardness, referencing the high tariffs imposed at most of the South East Asian nations.
Amid the ongoing mixture of changes and chaos in the current international situation, every country must make a choice between unilateralism and multilateralism, closeness and openness, unity and division, he added.
Attending a foreign ministerial level meetings with other officials of the ASEAN Plus in Kuala Lumpur, he said that Beijing's choice in conducting trade is to be more open, noting that this is not only the basic experience of China's development a...