‘For both the world and China, the outgoing 2022 is critical in bridging the past and the future,” Wang Yi, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs, said at the Symposium on the International Situation and China’s Foreign Relations via video link on December 25, 2022.
This was the 10th consecutive year-end speech on the state of world affairs and Chinese diplomacy Wang gave in his capacity as foreign minister since 2013. Likening it to a giant ship, Wang said in 2022 the global society “sailed through the raging waves of the once-in-a-century pandemic” and had to “brave for the hurricanes of geopolitical conflicts, whirlpools of bloc confrontation, undercurrents of surging inflation and cold waves of the energy crunch,” which made the journey “choppy and tumultuous.”
However, Wang did add
