China hits out at US ambassador Nicholas Burns for making negative comments ‘on multiple occasions’
- Foreign ministry in Beijing says the criticisms ‘do not serve the sound and steady growth of China-US relations’
- Burns has said military and tech competition is likely to deepen and has also criticised Hong Kong’s proposed Article 23 national security legislation
“We oppose defining bilateral relations with competition, and smearing and attacking China. We stand against the US interfering in China’s internal affairs under the pretext of human rights and values, and restraining China’s legitimate right to development in the name of competition,” Lin Jian, a new spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry, said on Tuesday.
Lin also told a regular press conference: “We noted that ambassador Burns has recently made negative comments on China on multiple occasions.
“These statements deviate from the important common understandings reached by the two presidents of China and the US at the summit meeting in San Francisco. They go against the spirit of the summit meeting in San Francisco and do not serve the sound and steady growth of China-US relations.”
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