Lu Kang (; born 14 May 1968) is a Chinese diplomat who currently serves as the Chinese Ambassador for Indonesia. He previously served as the Director of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China () is the first-ranked executive department of the State Council of the Chinese government, responsible for the foreign relations of the People's Republic of China. It is led ...

Life

Lu was born in

Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

, on May 14, 1968. In 1993, Lu joined the Foreign Service and from 1993 to 1996 Lu served as a consultant and attaché for the Department of International Organizations and Conferences of the

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. From 1996 to 1999 he was assigned to the mission at the UN headquarters in New York City. Subsequently, from 1999 to 2000 he was Secretary of the Third Class in the Department of International Organizations and Conferences. From 2000 to 2001 he attended the National University of Singapore, from which he graduated with a Master in Public Policy. As of 2001, he served as second-level legation secretary, deputy head of department, department head of the arms control and disarmament department, and served until 2006. From 2006 he was then Counselor in Dublin, Ireland until 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he served as a Legation Counselor, Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences, and led the Chinese delegation to sessions of the Asia-Pacific Economic Community. As of 2010, he was Deputy General Director of the Department of North American and Oceanic Affairs. From 2012 to 2015, he served as Minister in Washington, D.C. Since 2015, he has been Director-General of the Information Division, a post which includes the function of Speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. On March 14, 2016, he spoke about the

2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship The Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation (FCT) is a twenty-year strategic treaty that was signed by the leaders of the two international powers, Jiang Zemin and ...

as well as Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to Russia. Lu also spoke about

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, the alignment of the

Silk Road Economic Belt The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, or B&R), formerly known as One Belt One Road ( zh, link=no, 一带一路) or OBOR for short, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in nearly 150 ...

and missile tests on

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, as well as resumption of

six-party talks The six-party talks aimed to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program. There was a series of meetings with six participating states in Beijing: * China * Japan * North Korea ...

regarding those tests. Lu was very critical of the

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defense system that was introduced to

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

by the

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to defend it against possible nuclear attack from

DPRK North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tu ...

, citing a "direct harm fthe strategic security interests orChina and Russia". Regarding Syrian Civil War, Lu commented that he supports

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and blasted China-India

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crossing as media hype. In 2017, he stated that the

Sino-British Joint Declaration The Sino-British Joint Declaration is a treaty between the governments of the United Kingdom and China signed in 1984 setting the conditions in which Hong Kong was transferred to Chinese control and for the governance of the territory after ...

"no longer had any practical significance" with regards to the governance of

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

, a view that was disputed by the

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. On July 18, 2019, he was appointed director of the Foreign Ministry North American and Oceanian Affairs Department of the People's Republic of China. He says China has "

freedom of religion Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance. It also includes the freedom ...

". On February 22, 2022, he became the Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia.

References

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