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China confirmed today that Foreign Minister Qin Gang will attend the Group of 20 (G20) Foreign Ministers meeting in India, according to Reuters.
During a press conference, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning stated, “The G20 should concentrate on the most pressing issues confronting the global economy. China is prepared to collaborate with all parties to ensure that the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting sends a positive message about multilateralism.”
The G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting (FMM) will be held in New Delhi on March 1-2, 2023, under India’s presidency.
The G20 member countries’ foreign ministers are anticipated to hear from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will discuss India’s expanding global influence.
The G20 foreign ministers’ summit will take place on March 1-2, following a gathering of the group’s finance ministers in Bangalore.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will all be present at the meeting in New Delhi. There will be attendees from multilateral organizations and representatives from 40 nations, including non-G20 members who have been called by India.
Mao responded to the White House’s ultimatum for removing TikTok from government-owned devices.
She continued, “The US is overextending the notion of national security and abusing state power to repress foreign companies; we strongly oppose those wrong actions.
On Monday (local time), the White House gave federal organizations 30 days to remove the TikTok app from all devices that were provided by the government.
In response to concerns that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance might give the Chinese Communist Party access to user data, congressional legislation was passed in December that forbade the popular video-sharing app from being used on federal government devices and systems, according to the New York Post (NYP).
Before Lawmakers voted to ban TikTok in December, a number of government organizations, including the White House, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and the State Department, took proactive action.
TikTok, which is controlled by ByteDance, has denied using the app to spy on Americans and stated that the worries are unfounded.
According to NYP, ByteDance disputed the claims that it would provide the CCP with customer data and called them “misinformation.”
Following Canada’s decision to remove TikTok from official electronic devices, the US government took this action.
The ban will go into force on Tuesday, according to CNN. According to a statement from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, the download of TikTok will be prohibited from devices used by the government, and any current downloads of the app will be deleted.
