A top Chinese diplomat used racially tinged comments in a ploy to garner support and crucial East Asian allies in Japan and South Korea — and took a jab at the US in the process.
In a trilateral forum in Qingdao, a northern Chinese city, Wang Yi, the head of the Communist Party's foreign affairs commission, urged his country, Japan and South Korea to "join hands and cooperate" to "suit the interests" of the three nations and "revitalise East Asia and enrich the world."
Cooperation is the wish of their peoples, he said.
