China and Russia believe \u201ccolour revolutions\u201d are uprisings instigated by the United States
\n BEIJING
\nChina is willing to increase \u201claw enforcement and security\u201d cooperation with neighbouring Kazakhstan and help oppose interference by \u201cexternal forces\u201d, China\u2019s foreign minister said on Monday, after violent protests in the Central Asian country.
\nWang Yi, who is also a state councillor, made the comments in a call to Kazakhstan\u2019s foreign minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.
\n\u201cRecent turmoil in Kazakhstan shows that the situation in Central Asia is still facing severe challenges, and it once again proves that some external forces do not want peace and tranquillity in our region,\u201d the ministry quoted Wang telling Tileuberdi.
\nGovernment buildings in Kazakhstan were briefly captured or torched in several cities last week as initially peaceful protests against fuel price increases turned violent. Troops were ordered to shoot to kill to put down a countrywide uprising.
\nAuthorities have blamed the violence on \u201cextremists\u201d, including foreign-trained Islamist militants, for the violence.
\nAuthorities also asked a Russian-led military bloc to send in troops, who the government says have been deployed to guard strategic sites, a move questioned by United States.
\nExperts say China worries instability in its neighbour could threaten energy imports and Belt-and-Road projects there, and security in its western Xinjiang region, which shares a 1,770-km (1,110-mile) border with Kazakhstan.
\nChina was willing to \u201cjointly oppose the interference and infiltration of any external forces\u201d, said Wang.
\nChina\u2019s President Xi Jinping on Friday told Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev that China resolutely opposed any foreign force that destabilises Kazakhstan and engineers a \u201ccolour revolution\u201d, Chinese state television said.
\nChina and Russia believe \u201ccolour revolutions\u201d are uprisings instigated by the United States and other Western powers to achieve regime change.
\n\u201cChina does not want to see an expansion of U.S. influence in Kazakhstan and Central Asia as a result of this unrest,\u201d said Li Mingjiang, associate professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
\n\u201cIf a colour revolution in a nearby country leads to political democratisation, it could encourage the liberal-leaning intellectual elite in China to try something similar,\u201d he said.
\nSince the Vietnam War in the 1960s, China traditionally does not send troops to other countries, citing its policy of non-interference, except under the United Nations Peacekeeping banner.
\nLast month it sent six police officers to the Solomon Islands to help train the police force and quell the riots sparked by the country\u2019s 2019 switch of diplomatic relations to Beijing from Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
China and Russia believe \u201ccolour revolutions\u201d are uprisings instigated by the United States BEIJING China is willing to increase \u201claw enforcement and security\u201d cooperation with neighbouring Kazakhstan and help oppose interference by \u201cexternal forces\u201d, China\u2019s foreign minister said on Monday, after violent protests in the Central Asian country. Wang Yi, who is also a state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,2847,2633,2846,1354,1319],"class_list":{"0":"post-238038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-external-forces","10":"tag-kazakhstan","11":"tag-opposes","12":"tag-security","13":"tag-support"},"yoast_head":"\n