China News Agency, London, July 31 (Gao Tianyin and Zhang Ping) Liu Xiaoming, Chinese Ambassador to the UK, said at a press conference on the 30th that China-UK relations have encountered difficulties and the responsibility rests solely with the UK.
At the online Chinese and foreign press conference held by the Chinese Embassy in the UK on Sino-British relations that day, Liu Xiaoming pointed out that China-UK relations have encountered a series of difficulties recently and are facing severe situations. China has not changed, it has changed to Britain. China-UK relations have encountered difficulties, and the responsibility rests solely with the UK.
Liu Xiaoming stated that China's firm adherence to the basic norms of international relations has not changed, its persistence in taking the path of peaceful development has not changed, its earnest fulfillment of its international obligations has not changed, and its willingness to develop its partnership with the UK has not changed.
Liu Xiaoming pointed out that the UK’s perception and positioning of China have undergone major changes recently, and there have been serious deviations. The “ban on Huawei” is the most prominent example. This is not a question of how the UK treats a Chinese company, but a question of how the UK treats China. Some British politicians cling to the "Cold War mentality", echoing the anti-China forces inside and outside the UK, exaggerating the "China threat", treating China as a "hostile country", threatening to completely "decouple" from China, and even clamoring to launch against China. New Cold War".
Liu Xiaoming believes that mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit are the basic principles of inter-state relations established in the Charter of the United Nations, the basic norms of international law and international relations, and the basic principles of Sino-British relations. Included in the joint communiqué on the establishment of ambassador-level diplomatic relations between the two countries. However, recently the British side has repeatedly violated these important principles by groundlessly accusing Hong Kong’s national security law on Hong Kong-related issues, changing the British National (Overseas) (BNO) policy, suspending the extradition agreement with Hong Kong, grossly interfering in Hong Kong affairs and China’s internal affairs, and seriously disrupting Hong Kong is stable and prosperous; it disregards facts and reverses black and white on Xinjiang-related issues, smears China's Xinjiang policy through bilateral and multilateral channels, and interferes in China's internal affairs through the so-called Xinjiang human rights issues, which seriously poisons the atmosphere of Sino-British relations.
Liu Xiaoming said that at present, the world's major changes unseen in a century are developing in depth. The new crown pneumonia epidemic is still raging around the world, economic globalization has suffered a serious impact, and the world economy has fallen into a deep recession. Both China and Britain are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and important member states of international organizations such as the G20. They are both major countries with global influence, and both shoulder the important mission of maintaining world peace and promoting development. A healthy and stable development of Sino-British relations not only conforms to the fundamental interests of the Chinese and British peoples, but also contributes to world peace and prosperity. We have a thousand reasons to make Sino-British relations good, and no one reason to ruin Sino-British relations.
How to improve China-UK relations? Liu Xiaoming believes that achieving mutual respect, mutual benefit and win-win results, and seeking common ground while reserving differences is essential. (Finish)