On May 9, on the occasion of commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union and the founding of the United Nations, China and Russia issued a joint statement on further deepening the China Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in the new era. Both sides pointed out that certain countries and their allies use unilateral and illegal restrictive measures such as trade and financial restrictions to significantly increase tariffs and other non market competition methods, which have a negative impact on the world economy, undermine fair competition, obstruct international cooperation to address common challenges faced by all mankind, including hindering the maintenance of global food security, energy security, and the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Both sides condemn the despicable acts of bypassing the United Nations Security Council, violating the United Nations Charter and international law, obstructing justice, and violating World Trade Organization rules. Both sides believe that the risks of global trade fragmentation, discriminatory measures, and increasing violations of trade restrictions are increasing. Individual countries have declared excessive tariffs on their trading partners under various pretexts, seriously infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of all countries, violating the rules of the World Trade Organization, seriously damaging the rules based multilateral trading system, and seriously impacting the stability of the global economic order. Both sides firmly oppose illegal unilateral bullying measures and unilateral protectionism measures that seriously undermine the international economic and trade order and have a negative impact on the global industrial and supply chains, such as the indiscriminate imposition of tariffs and the abuse of export controls.
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