Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu at G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting: Protectionism Has No Winners
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on November 1 that Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu attended the Group of 20 (G20) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 30-31, setting out China's positions on the international situation, global security, energy and supply chains. The meeting was chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose country holds the 2026 G20 presidency, and participants held in-depth discussions on geopolitical tensions, energy and supply chains.
Ma said the international situation is undergoing profound changes, geopolitical situations are tense, and the development agenda is seriously lagging behind. The Global Security Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping advocates a vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security and a new path of dialogue over confrontation, partnership over alliance, and win-win outcomes over zero-sum games, and has played an important role in helping resolve international and regional disputes. Ma urged the G20 to shoulder its responsibilities as a force for world peace and stability, help ease tensions in regional hotspots, address the root causes of conflicts, and strengthen global security governance.
On energy, Ma said energy is the lifeblood of economic and social development, and that China supports the G20 in deepening cooperation on energy security and sustainable development, improving energy affordability, advancing the energy transition, and improving global energy governance.
On industrial and supply chains, Ma said protectionism has no winners, and that building walls, decoupling and severing supply chains disrupts their stability and harms all parties. He said G20 members should deepen policy coordination and take concrete actions to keep global supply chains stable, adding that China conducts international trade on market principles and WTO rules, and that trade issues must not be politicized, weaponized or over-securitized, still less dressed up as fair competition to practice protectionism. Ma also set out China's positions on the Middle East and the Ukraine crisis.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：中国外交部副部长马朝旭出席二十国集团外长会。中国外交部官网照片。 / Photo: Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu at the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting. Photo via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China (fmprc.gov.cn).
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