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Xi Jinping sends message of support to Kazakhstan’s Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as unrest continues
- Chinese leader says Beijing opposes any attempts by foreign forces to cause trouble and backs security crackdown
- China is concerned unrest may spill across the border into Xinjiang and it has extensive investments in the country under the Belt and Road Initiative
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a message to his counterpart in Kazakhstan, saying Beijing opposes any attempts by foreign forces to stir up trouble in the country.
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Xi told President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev that China was willing to support the country’s efforts to resolve the crisis.
Xi’s message came after days of unrest in the Central Asian nation, a development that has triggered fears that it might spill over the border into Xinjiang.
“China resolutely opposes any forces that undermine Kazakhstan’s stability and threaten Kazakhstan’s security, resolutely opposes any forces that undermine the peaceful life of the Kazakhstan people, resolutely opposes external forces deliberately creating turbulence and instigating a ‘colour revolution’ in Kazakhstan,” the message read, according to the state news agency Xinhua.
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He said China also opposed any attempts to damage the cooperation between the two countries.
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