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Foreign Minister Wang Yi faced the press on Friday morning to lay out Beijing’s foreign policy direction.
This came as China faces an “increasingly complex and severe external environment”, according to this year’s government work report released on Wednesday.
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Reporting by Alyssa Chen, Meredith Chen, Shi Jiangtao, Dewey Sim, Orange Wang, Kawala Xie, Zhao Ziwen and Laura Zhou.