- Han says sovereignty of Gulf countries should be respected
- He calls for end to threat of force against Cuba
- Remarks follow Trump-Xi summit earlier this week
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 (Reuters) - China pushed back against the United States in its speech at the UN General Assembly on Saturday, saying sovereignty of countries in the Gulf should be respected and urging the “relevant country” to stop threatening Cuba and lift its blockade on it. Vice President Han Zheng did not mention the US by name in his remarks. The US has launched a pressure campaign on Cuba that has largely blocked oil from reaching the island. The US war on Iran started with US-Israeli strikes in February.
The comments stood in sharp contrast to the bonhomie on display earlier this week at the White House, where President Donald Trump feted Chinese leader Xi Jinping with military flyovers and at a lavish state dinner. “Major countries should have special responsibilities for safeguarding international peace and security, and they should take the lead in complying with the rules, upholding rule of law, and doing what’s right,” Han said.
“China holds that the sovereignty and security of countries in the Middle East, including the Gulf, should be respected.” Trump warned Xi against providing support to Iran during the Washington talks and received assurances that China would not do so, the US ambassador to China said on Friday.
The warning followed reports that Beijing had supplied Iran with shoulder-fired air-defense missile launchers and that Tehran had found ways to evade sanctions on its oil sales with Chinese help.
CALL FOR END OF BLOCKADE ON CUBA
On Cuba, Han said: “China urges the relevant country to immediately stop using threat of force against Cuba and immediately and completely lift the blockade and sanctions against Cuba.”
Uh huh. But Taiwan is fine. Pot, kettle, guillotines for all of them.
Is Taiwan being carpet bombed? Are Taiwanese people living without power and basic life essentials? One of these pots isn’t quite like the kettle.
Cool - now do Trumps threats against Canada.
Am in Canada an live with that. Also continued political inerference, funding separatist groups, incessant propaganda throurh US ownership of Canadian media, etc., etc.
It’s not geat. Yet it’s not comparable at all to the reality of Cuba where we used to visit regularly prior to Trump 2.0. We have a functioning economy, trade, most of our jobs, decent healthcare, surgeries aren’t done without power, there aren’t shortages of practically anything (that isn’t our own structural problem like doctors.)
Canada has lived with US’es annexation ambitions for more than a century. It’s not new and it goes through ebbs and flows.
Incredible that you are being downvoted for this. Kind of sad how this shows that so many people don’t have any objection to violent annexation, as long as it isn’t them personally.
The last time Taiwan was annexed was in 1683 by the Qing dynasty, 21 years after the Ming dynasty kicked out Dutch and Spanish colonizers.
Chiang Kai-shek, who had the support of the wealthy elites of china who made up only 10% of the population, lost the civil war and fled with his supporters to Taiwan, the leftists and intellectuals of Taiwan viewed him as a hostile occupying force and fought for self determination, and we’re massacred by his troops. He them imposed martial law and consolidated his power in Taiwan, look up White Terror.
Today, we are told Taiwan had a had democratic reforms in the 1980s and now operates a democracy. The west points out the success of bringing 58-59% of the population (6-8 million people) out of poverty as the success of Taiwan and a clear defeat of communism… Only the Chinese Communist Party brought 96% of the much larger population (~800 million people) out of poverty in the same timeframe.
Only 27.8% of the taiwanese population supports declaring independence from China (and only 13.8 support unification). People just mostly don’t want things to change. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/07/06/2003860292
I tried to be objectively accurate in historical recounting without siding with the CCP or the West, I’m not taiwanese and it’s not up to me what they want to do. I believe the popular narrative in the west is mostly proganada, and the US uses Taiwan to maintain a monopoly on high end semiconductors to protect capitalism, but I only provided objective facts that you can verify yourself.
It’s incredible and kind of sad that you think Taiwan can be compared to Cuba. If anything, Taiwan can be more accurately compared to the Cuban wealthy elites who escaped to Miami.