The former president of Uruguay, José Mujica, called the visit of the president of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan “quite inopportune” and “not very nice” and said that Washington will find it difficult to understand that “the world it is not one’s own.” “With the contradictions that exist in the world, it is not at all pleasant that the United States makes a move of this type knowing that it is an offense against the definitions that the Chinese government has had for a long time,” Mujica said in an interview with Xinhua.
“Is there a deliberate interest in rebuilding a Cold War climate?”, so that Taiwan is just a “pretext” in that strategy, the person who governed Uruguay between 2010 and 2015 wondered.
“It doesn’t seem to be diplomatically the smartest move in this circumstance,” he added.
Mujica, 87, indicated that history “is creating its verdicts” and that “whatever the government of China is, it will never renounce a definition of sovereignty that it has historically implanted.”
“I hope that China, which has shown phenomenal intelligence throughout its history, does not abdicate the use of its patience and intelligence now that it has growing responsibilities in the world,” Mujica said.
Recalling the principle of self-determination of each society and each people to choose their path and their course, the former president stated that “the United States should not like that they come from outside to determine the paths of their internal policy to other countries like China. , they are not going to like it either if they come to tell you what to do from the outside ».
“Since before World War II, the United States has generated as a great power natural right to dispose of anywhere on Earth. You will have to get used to respecting that there are different interests, different nations », he said.
He also called on Washington to “understand that there are many countries, but humanity is one and we have common responsibilities and that the climate of peace should not be altered.”
“It is going to be difficult for the United States to understand that the world does not belong to one person but to everyone and that we have to learn to live together and respect the diversity that exists,” he concluded.
