Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on July 16, 2020
CCTV reporter: According to reports, State Councilor Wang Yi held video talks with Philippine Foreign Minister Rochin. The Philippine Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the talks were open, friendly and fruitful. Can you introduce the specifics of the talks? What consensus has China and the Philippines reached?
Hua Chunying: On July 14, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held video talks with Philippine Foreign Minister Lochin to exchange in-depth views on Sino-Philippine relations, anti-epidemic cooperation and South China Sea issues. As the Philippine side said, the talks are frank and friendly and fruitful.
Both sides expressed that they attach great importance to Sino-Philippine relations and will continue to implement the consensus between the leaders of the two countries. Taking the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations this year as an opportunity to further enhance the friendship and unity between the two countries and deepen the "Belt and Road" and "Philippines" major construction "Planning and docking, promoting pragmatic cooperation in various fields, and promoting the continuous development of China-Philippines comprehensive strategic cooperative relations for the benefit of the two countries and the region.
The two sides spoke highly of the mutual assistance and mutual assistance of the two countries to jointly cope with the challenge of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. They will continue to promote anti-epidemic cooperation, including vaccine research and development, accelerate the establishment of "fast channels" for personnel exchanges, and promote economic and social development in the context of normalization of epidemic prevention and control. Resume development. The two sides unanimously opposed the politicization and labeling of the epidemic situation, and supported the international community to unite against the epidemic and overcome the difficulties.
The two sides also conducted friendly discussions on the maritime issue, and agreed that the maritime dispute is not the whole of Sino-Philippine relations and should not and will not affect Sino-Philippine friendship. The two sides will continue to handle maritime disputes through bilateral friendly consultations based on the principles of mutual respect, honesty and sovereign equality, actively promote maritime cooperation, and jointly maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea.
CCTV reporter: According to reports, a recent nuclear leak at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States has caused staff to be contaminated with plutonium oxide powder. At the same time, the United States is seeking to rapidly increase the laboratory’s nuclear weapons production capacity to ensure that it has the ability to produce 30 nuclear weapon cores per year by 2030. what opinions do the Chinese have on this issue?
Hua Chunying: I also saw relevant reports. As the country with the world's largest nuclear arsenal, the United States is still vigorously advancing the modernization of nuclear weapons, developing new types of nuclear weapons, and seeking absolute strategic security advantages. The United States is "doing fast" in the field of nuclear weapons, which not only destabilizes global strategic stability but also increases hidden dangers to nuclear security. Experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists also expressed concern. The US side should earnestly fulfill its special and priority responsibilities for nuclear disarmament and do practical and good things to promote global strategic security.
Bloomberg reporter: According to Bloomberg News, US President Trump may consider not imposing sanctions on high-level Chinese government officials. But according to the New York Times, the Trump administration is considering banning all Chinese Communist Party members and their families from traveling to the United States. What is China's comment?
Hua Chunying: I can’t verify the authenticity of the above report. You are going to ask the US. If it is true, I think the US side is very sad. As the most powerful country in the world, what kind of impression does the US want to leave the world in addition to various threats to sanctions?
It is hoped that the US will stop doing things that violate the basic norms of international relations and will not help maintain the image, credibility and status of its own great power.
Surging News reporter: On the 15th, US Secretary of State Pompeo said that he insisted that China is a century stain in the field of human rights. The US will impose visa restrictions on some employees of Chinese technology companies that provide material support for human rights violations. What is China's comment?
Hua Chunying: IMHO, although the US side has kept human rights on its lips all the time, in fact, the United States is the world’s largest human rights violator. The US’s accusation of China’s human rights issues in Xinjiang is the biggest lie of this century. Relevant US officials should be ashamed of this, and the American people should also be saddened by their officials who are so full of lies.
Whether the human rights situation in China is good or not should be decided by the Chinese people, not by American politicians. More than 70 years after the founding of New China, the Communist Party of China led the Chinese people on a development path suited to China's national conditions and achieved remarkable achievements. On China's 9.6 million square kilometers of land, 56 ethnic groups live in harmony and 1.4 billion people live and work in peace and contentment. For more than 40 years, China’s per capita income has grown more than 25 times, and 850 million people have escaped poverty. China's contribution to global poverty reduction exceeds 70%. At the same time, China is the only country among all the major powers that has not developed into the second largest economy in the world through war, colonization and slavery. For more than 10 consecutive years, China has contributed more than 30% to the increase in global GDP. This is the largest human rights project. This is the best human rights practice. It is also China's biggest contribution to the cause of human rights in the world. As long as there is no prejudice, anyone can see it for everyone.
In contrast to the United States, the United States has expelled and killed Indians through the Westward Movement for nearly a hundred years after its founding. The Indian population of the United States dropped from 5 million to 250,000, only one-twentieth of the original. The United States has not fought in only 16 years in its 240-year history. Since 2001, the United States has illegally launched wars and military operations against Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and other countries. Not to mention the financial expenditure of more than 6.4 trillion US dollars, the death toll is more than 800,000, resulting in the displacement of tens of millions of people. In the United States, the situation of ethnic minorities such as Africans is very difficult. Freud is not the only person in the United States who unfortunately suffocated and died because he could not breathe. Racial discrimination in the United States is everywhere, and the gap between rich and poor is clear at a glance. In fact, among the entire Western countries, the United States is the most differentiated between rich and poor. From 1989 to 2018, the bottom 50% of households in the United States had a net increase in household wealth that was basically zero, and the gap between rich and poor was the highest in 50 years. Faced with these hard facts, I do not know where Secretary Pompeo's confidence and confidence talked to China about human rights issues! If I want to talk about it, I think he’d better ask Freud and the ethnic minorities in the United States what they think about the human rights situation in the United States. Problem performance!
Agence France-Presse: Recently, China and the United States have imposed a series of sanctions and countermeasures on issues involving Hong Kong, Huawei, and Xinjiang. Many people expressed concern about the Sino-US economic and trade agreement signed in January. Is the first phase of China-US economic and trade agreement still valid? Is China still committed to implementing the agreement?
Hua Chunying: After hard work, the Chinese and American teams reached the first stage of economic and trade agreement on the basis of equality and mutual respect. We have said many times that the agreement will benefit both countries and the world. We certainly hope that the agreements that have been reached can be effectively implemented. China has always believed in words and acted in confidence. We will implement the signed agreements.
At the same time, it must be seen that the United States is now unreasonably accusing China, almost frantically suppressing interception, and implementing bullying against China. What the US does is not conducive to mutual trust and cooperation between China and the US. China must resolutely say "no" to the bullying and injustice of the US, and will also resolutely take action to safeguard its sovereignty, security, and development interests.
Shenzhen Satellite TV reporter: Regarding the ban on Huawei in the UK, on the 15th, a spokesman for the British Prime Minister also admitted that the reason why the British side changed its position on Huawei’s participation in the 5G construction of the UK was the US sanctions on Huawei in May. There are also different voices in Britain. For example, BT CEO Jensen said that the British government's decision on Huawei clearly affects the company's operations and costs. A spokesperson for Invota Corporation also expressed disappointment with the British government's decision, which will delay the promotion of British 5G and cause additional costs. What is China's comment?
Hua Chunying: I also noticed relevant reports. All of this shows that the British government has lost its valuable independence and autonomy on the Huawei issue, and the decisions made are not worth the gains.
I have said yesterday that in the past 20 years, the United Kingdom has chosen to cooperate well with Huawei, which is out of British interest. Huawei has created tens of thousands of jobs for the United Kingdom and made active contributions to the construction of British communications infrastructure. The British side now decides to ban Huawei, and it will ultimately be the British side's own interests that will be damaged. The British government should listen carefully to its domestic rational voice and make a choice that best suits the fundamental and long-term interests of the UK in a responsible manner.
Beijing Daily reporter: US Secretary of State Pompeo has repeatedly stated that excluding Huawei is equivalent to joining the ranks of “clean countries”. What's your opinion?
Hua Chunying: The "Prism Gate" incident has long revealed that the United States is the largest and true Matrix in the world. American companies such as Cisco and Apple have admitted that their devices have security holes and "backdoors" a few years ago. The U.S. intelligence service has long conducted undiscriminated illegal surveillance activities against foreign governments, enterprises, and individuals, including allies. Basically, there are no secrets for citizens of the United States. This is an open fact.
Huawei provides services to more than 170 countries around the world, and no country has obtained evidence that Huawei products have security threats or "backdoors." Taking the United Kingdom as an example, Huawei funded the establishment of a network security testing center in the United Kingdom to accept testing by British experts and expressed its willingness to sign a "backdoor-free agreement" with all countries. Is there any country in the world that can do this? apple? Cisco? Any company in the United States can be as glorious as Huawei. Let's be frank, let me establish a network security testing center. You send experts to test, and we can sign a "no backdoor agreement." Which American company can do this? On this issue, Secretary Pompeo judged Huawei by whether it was clean or not, which is very ridiculous.
The United States has always claimed to have strong values of democracy and freedom, but now it cannot tolerate the normal survival and development of a foreign private enterprise. From the US's perspective, as an excellent private enterprise, Huawei's only mistake is that it is Chinese, isn't it? Out of strong ideological prejudice, the United States spared no effort to use national resources, abuse the name of national security, and even moved out of democratic values. It rallied "little brothers" to discredit and attack, intercept and intercept Chinese private enterprises. What the US does has nothing to do with the word "clean", it is a real dirty trick, dirty play.
Bloomberg reporter: US Secretary of State Pompeo said that the United States will impose visa restrictions on some Huawei employees in response to the human rights issues of Muslims and other ethnic minorities. What's your opinion?
Hua Chunying: I made it very clear just now that the United States is the world’s largest human rights violator. The US human rights accusation against China on Xinjiang-related issues is the biggest lie of this century. The United States should be ashamed that its senior officials have spread such a big lie on this issue. If Mr. Pompeo is sincere, we welcome him to take a look in Xinjiang, talk to the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, and find out what the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang think of him.
Global Times reporter: US Secretary of State Pompeo also said in an interview recently that the Communist Party of China did not complete the commitments they made in the Paris Agreement, and also violated the commitments and international law on the South China Sea issue. What is China's comment?
Hua Chunying: I don’t want to turn the regular press conference of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs into a special session to refute Pompeo’s lies. But since he has made such intensive speeches that discredit and attack China, I still have to respond. China's position on climate change and the South China Sea issue is very clear. Regarding Pompeo’s recent accusations that China has violated international law, I’m willing to take a moment to list the groups that the United States withdrew from these years.
In 1982, the United States refused to sign the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in order to maintain its maritime hegemony, and it has not yet joined it. In 1984, the United States was dissatisfied with its cultural control gradually being weakened by developing countries, and officially withdrew from UNESCO. He returned in 2003, but again withdrew in 2017 on the grounds of "saving money and urging reform." In 1985, the United States, due to Nicaragua’s complaint of its armed intervention for violation of sovereignty, declared that it refused to accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice. In 1995, the United States declared that it had withdrawn from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and refused to pay its arrears due to "domestic budget difficulties." In 2001, the United States declared that it was not in the national interest of the United States to fulfil its environmental obligations and refused to ratify the "Kyoto Protocol." In 2001, the United States announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Congress against Racism after failing to prevent the discussion of Israeli military operations against Palestine. In 2001, the United States formally withdrew from the "Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty" signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972 to strengthen its military superiority. In 2002, the United States considered it unfavorable to American military personnel, diplomats and politicians, and announced the withdrawal of the signing of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. In 2017, it was announced that it would formally withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) because it believed that multilateral trade agreements were not in the best interests of the United States and hindered the US government's "US first" policy. In 2017, the United States believed that the Paris Agreement hindered the development of the US economy and announced its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. In 2017, it announced its withdrawal from the negotiations of the UN Global Compact on Immigration and voted against it in the General Assembly. In 2018, after the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran had fulfilled the commitments made in the nuclear agreement and the United States had no evidence that Iran violated the agreement, the United States insisted on withdrawing from the comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear issue approved by the UN Security Council and resumed Unilateral sanctions are imposed. In 2018, the so-called UN Human Rights Council "cannot effectively protect human rights" announced its withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council. In 2018, in order to evade the prosecution of legitimate rights protection in Palestine, it announced its withdrawal from the Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes, which concerns the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice. In 2019, in order to develop land-based medium- and short-range missile forces without restraint, the United States announced its withdrawal from the "Central Guidance Treaty." In 2020, the United States announced that it would withdraw from the "Open Sky Treaty" under the pretext of a breach of the treaty by Russia. Recently, the United States announced that it would withdraw from the World Health Organization for its own inability to fight the epidemic. Our concern is that the United States is still in arrears of more than 200 million US dollars in membership dues, will it be paid off before officially withdrawing?
If the United States does not agree, it will make various "contract breaks and retreat from the group," and the international law will be used if it is not, and it will be abandoned, reflecting its naked hegemonism and double standards. Before blaming China, would you please return to the groups that you withdrew from? It is hoped that the United States will truly act like a responsible big country and abide by international laws and various international treaties like China and other countries.
British independent TV news reporter: Today the Taiwan military held an exercise against mainland China. What's your opinion? Is there a timetable for mainland China to reunify Taiwan?
Hua Chunying: For military exercises, you should ask the Ministry of National Defense. I have seen reports that Taiwan seems to intend to use military exercises to "sword" to the mainland. If you really have such an idea, you will be too self-confident.
China's will to safeguard national unity and territorial integrity is rock-solid and indestructible. Realizing the complete reunification of the motherland is the general trend and cannot be stopped. Any forces attempting to split China must have a clear understanding of this. The 1.4 billion Chinese people will never allow any inch of land to be separated from our hands.
Hong Kong China Press Agency reporter: In response to the current situation of Sino-US relations, many media analysts believe that it is difficult for the two countries to cross the ideological gap, and the “new cold war” between China and the United States is taking shape. What is China's comment?
Hua Chunying: Recently, everyone has paid close attention to Sino-US relations, and there are various comments. This is understandable. A few days ago, State Councilor Wang Yi delivered an important speech at the China-US Think Tank Media Forum, which comprehensively and systematically expounded China's views and suggestions on current China-US relations.
Wang Yi pointed out that some people in the United States, out of ideological prejudice, are making every effort to render China an opponent or even an enemy. They are trying every means to curb China's development and unscrupulously hinder the relationship between China and the United States. The current US policy toward China is based on strategic misjudgments lacking factual evidence, full of emotional catharsis and McCarthy-style paranoia. The US’s unreasonable suspicion of China has reached the point where it is a snake and a tree. It seems that every Chinese investment has a political purpose, every student studying abroad has a spy background, and every cooperative initiative has no plans. If the United States is so lacking in self-confidence, openness, and tolerance, artificially creating various "China threats" may eventually lead to "self-fulfilling prophecies." China and the United States should not seek to transform each other, but should jointly explore ways for peaceful coexistence of different systems and civilizations. The path taken by each country is based on its own cultural traditions and historical accumulation. The road of socialism with Chinese characteristics adhered to by China conforms to China's national conditions and is the choice of the Chinese people. Practice has proved that this road not only freed 1.4 billion Chinese people from poverty and backwardness, but also made the Chinese nation once again make a major contribution to the cause of human progress. I have recently introduced that many opinion polls by international polling agencies have shown that the Chinese people’s support for the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government ranks first in the world. A recent 13-year research report from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University pointed out that the Chinese government led by the Communist Party of China enjoys a support rate and satisfaction of more than 93% among the Chinese people. No country, no person, no force has the right to deny the path chosen by the Chinese people, which has been proved to be correct.
China has no intention to challenge or replace the United States, and has no intention to fully confront the United States. Our concern is to improve the well-being of our people and meet their growing needs for a better life. China's policy towards the United States has not changed, and it is willing to develop a win-win China-US relationship in the spirit of equality and mutual respect. Of course, this requires the United States and China to meet each other. From the first day of establishing diplomatic relations with China, the United States knew that dealing with him was a socialist country with Chinese characteristics led by the Communist Party of China. Over the past few decades, Sino-US cooperation has done a lot of important things, which not only promoted the respective development of the two countries, but also contributed to maintaining world peace and solving global problems. It is hoped that the US will view China more rationally and objectively and formulate a more rational and pragmatic China policy. This is the most in line with the fundamental and long-term interests of the people of China and the United States, and the most in line with the expectations of the people of the world.
China News Service reporter: According to media reports, three US military personnel stationed in Japan who had been diagnosed with New Coronary Pneumonia falsely reported their itinerary when they entered Japan, suspected of violating Japanese epidemic prevention regulations. Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono said the matter was extremely serious and demanded that the US side deal with it seriously. Some commentators believe that the US government does not manage this epidemic well, and it is estimated that it will not care about Japan’s epidemic prevention regulations. What is China's comment?
Hua Chunying: Everyone may be familiar with the various manifestations of the overseas US military's contempt for the laws and regulations of the host country and public opinion. However, the actions of these US military personnel on the issue of New Coronary Pneumonia, which is related to the health and even life and death of others, broke through the bottom line of human morality and cannot be accepted by a civilized society.
Reporter from Batong: According to reports, Pakistan has recently opened five important channels for bilateral and transit trade with Afghanistan, and allows Afghan businessmen to use the important project of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor -Gwadar Port. As an important country in the region and neighboring countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan, what's China's comment on the resumption of trade activities in the region?
Hua Chunying: Recently, Pakistan and Afghanistan have overcome the impact of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic and actively resumed trade and personnel exchanges between the two sides. China appreciates this. China is a common neighbor and friend of Palestine and Afghanistan. We look forward to the improvement of Pakistan-Arab relations and economic development, and we are willing to play a constructive role in this regard. China supports the extension of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan so that the Afghan people will benefit more from the construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative. China is happy to see that Gwadar Port and other corridor projects play an active role in this process and is willing to make joint efforts with Pakistan and Afghanistan.