Wang Wenbin had the following response to a question from Bloomberg about the Quad Leaders’ Statement: “We hope that the US, before talking about rules and order, will first pay its overdue $1 billion assessed contributions to the UN and the $1.4 billion peacekeeping assessments, ratify as soon as possible the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and stop standing alone in blocking negotiations for a verification protocol under the Biological Weapons Convention, lift its illegal unilateral sanctions on countries including Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and Afghanistan, and stop meddling in the sovereign decision of South Pacific Island countries to pursue normal cooperation with other countries.”