On the afternoon of May 26, the Ministry of National Defense held a regular press conference. The Director of the Information Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense and the spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense, Senior Colonel Wu Qian, answered questions from reporters.
Reporter: According to reports, US Secretary of Defense Austin said in a recent Senate hearing that the focus of the deployment of the US military is to confront China's "aggressive bullying behavior".
Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the U.S. is facing China and Russia, two major powers, both of which have powerful militaries, and are trying to fundamentally undermine the rules-based international order.
what opinions do the Chinese have on this issue?
Wu Qian: The U.S. remarks, as always, reflect a strong Cold War mentality, a hegemonic mentality, and anxieties in the face of China's peaceful rise.
Whether the words used by the US are "bullying" or "undermining international rules and order", I think every word is the US itself.
When it comes to "bullying" in international relations, the United States is the well-deserved initiator and master of it.
In Iraq, the United States blatantly invaded a sovereign country with a tube of unknown white powder, causing a large number of civilian casualties and displacing many families.
In Syria, the United States used the "White Helmets" to organize fake videos and armed intervention in Syria's internal affairs, causing a tragic humanitarian disaster.
The Chinese people will never forget that in May 23 years ago, the US-led NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in the Yugoslavia and owed another blood debt to the Chinese people.
This is both bullying and a crime.
When it comes to a rules-based international order, the United States is a globally recognized rule-breaker.
As we all know, the United States likes to talk about "rules" the most, but the country that takes the rules least seriously is precisely the United States.
The U.S. side applies international law and international rules if they do not conform to them. In recent years, the United States has successively withdrawn from the JCPOA, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and the Open Skies Treaty, etc., which fully demonstrates its selfishness and hypocrisy.
On this issue, the United States is the least qualified to blame other countries.
We urge the US to stop the wrong practice of packaging "family laws and regulations" as international rules and promoting the US-style "hegemonic order", and accept China's peaceful development objectively and rationally.
This is beneficial to China-US relations and to world peace and stability.