Ambassador to the United States becomes China's new foreign minister For the

first time in nine years, China's foreign minister has been replaced. The new minister is considered a close aide to Xi Jinping and a supporter of hawkish politics, but before his appointment he called for the peaceful coexistence of the United States.and ChinaQin GangQin GangQin Gang

Qin Gang, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, has become China 's new foreign minister , Chinese television channel CGTN reports. He replaced Wang Yi, who has been in charge of the department since 2013 and has been a member of the State Council of China since 2018.

Qin Gang has been China's ambassador to the United States since July 2021. Prior to that, he was Chinese Vice Foreign Minister, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman (Head of Information Department), and Chinese Ambassador to the UK.

Reuters and Singapore's The Straits Times call him a "trusted aide" to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. “He was promoted because, like others, he is very loyal to Xi Jinping. But he hasn't gotten very far with the US," Jeffrey Moon, president of China Moon Strategies and former US consul general in Chengdu, was quoted by the Hong Kong SCMP as saying. According to the publication, Qin Gang arrived in Washington at a time of very difficult relations between China and the United States, and during his tenure as head of the embassy attracted the attention of a number of harsh statements. He's earned a reputation as a "fighting wolf," says Bonnie Lin, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former director of China affairs at the US Department of Defense. The concept of "war wolf" in Chinese terminology refers to supporters of radical politics, or "hawks",

At the same time, some analysts interviewed by SCMP note that Qin Gang behaved as ambassador to the United States "not as aggressively as many feared." Foreign Policy, at the time of his appointment as ambassador to Washington, also noted that he did not live up to his reputation as a tough nationalist. For example, shortly after arriving in Washington, he publicly offered to cooperate with the United States in the development of vaccines for COVID-19 .

“Those of us in the press corps [in Beijing] who have known Qin for years saw him as a slick, cunning gambler who is not necessarily anti-American (before joining the Foreign Ministry in 1992, he was a news assistant at the American news agency United Press International), but who knows exactly how to keep your nose to the wind depending on the politics of Beijing,” describes his head of the Newsweek bureau in Beijing, Melinda Liu.

Chinese Ambassador urges US to coexist as one world with a common future Politics

Two days before his appointment as Chinese Foreign Minister, Qin Gang published a policy article "How China sees the world" in the American edition of The National Interest. In it, he stated that the Chinese and Americans should look for a way to get along "on the basis of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and mutually beneficial cooperation." “Viewing the world as a community with a common future naturally leads to reform, openness and mutually beneficial cooperation,” Qin Gang wrote.

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At the same time, he also noted the differences between China and Western countries. “China's development means an increasingly strong support for the world, not a growing power ready to 'disrupt the status quo', as some call it. Tensions around the Taiwan Strait were created not by mainland China's disruption of the status quo, but by pro-Taiwan independence separatists and outside forces that continually challenge the One China policy, he wrote.

In addition, Qin Gang expressed concern about the situation around Ukraine. “China is extremely concerned about the situation in Ukraine. While deeply saddening, what is happening there does provide some important lessons: there are no winners in conflicts and wars; complex issues do not have a simple solution; confrontation between large countries must be avoided. The most urgent task at the moment is to promote peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, as well as dialogue between the US, EU, NATO and Russia,” he wrote. At the same time, Qin Gang emphasized the importance of the principle of "indivisibility of security" in Europe, which Russia insisted on before the start of the conflict - it means that the security of one country cannot be built at the expense of the security of others.