Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian hosted a regular press conference on July 7, 2022
AFP: Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is about to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting to be held this week. Can the Ministry of Foreign Affairs introduce the specific topics of the meeting between the Chinese and US foreign ministers? Will the Chinese and Russian foreign ministers hold a face-to-face meeting?
Zhao Lijian: Yesterday, I answered a question about the meeting between State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Secretary of State Blinken.
Regarding the bilateral arrangements made by State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his attendance at the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, what I can tell you is that this morning, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with the foreign ministers of India, Indonesia and Argentina, as well as the EU foreign and security policy senior leaders. The representatives held bilateral meetings respectively.
According to the information I have, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is currently meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.
Next, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will also hold bilateral meetings with foreign ministers from the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and other countries.
Phoenix TV: An unnamed official from the US State Department said in a briefing to the media recently that one of the key goals of the meeting between the foreign ministers of the US and China is to strengthen the "guardrail" of the relationship between the two countries and inject stability into the China-US relationship. How does China respond to this?
Zhao Lijian: Americans have been talking about "guardrails", and the "guardrails" of Sino-US relations are the three Sino-US joint communiques.
China-US relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world.
As the world's two largest economies and a permanent member of the UN Security Council, China-US relations can only be improved, not broken.
The two sides should uphold the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, and push bilateral relations back to the track of healthy and stable development.
What the US should do is to abide by the provisions of the three Sino-US joint communiques and the commitments it has made to China.
Press Trust of India: You just announced that the foreign ministers of India and China met in Bali this morning. The Indian side has released the relevant details of the meeting, including the India-China border issue. Can China provide more information? What did both sides talk about?
Zhao Lijian: Like you, I am also closely following the situation of the meeting.
We will release relevant news in a timely manner, please continue to pay attention to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
We have also noticed the press release issued by the Indian side.
What I can tell you is that at present, the situation on the China-India border is generally stable.
The two sides agreed to properly resolve the issues related to the western sector of the China-India border in accordance with the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and the agreements signed by the two sides.
China and India are each other's important neighbors, and both sides have the will and ability to jointly maintain peace and tranquility on the China-India border.
Reuters: On Wednesday, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned U.S. state and local officials that China is stepping up its influence operations aimed at manipulating relevant officials to pressure the federal government to pursue more China-friendly policies. What is the spokesperson's comment on this?
Zhao Lijian: There is an idiom in China called "suspecting a neighbor of stealing an axe", which means that if a person loses his axe, he suspects that his neighbor has stolen his axe.
Relevant US remarks are full of Cold War zero-sum thinking and ideological prejudice.
The dialogue and cooperation between relevant Chinese institutions and the US side is upright and open, and has played an important role in deepening people-to-people and cultural exchanges and mutual learning between the two countries, as well as enhancing mutual understanding and mutual trust.
Local exchanges and cooperation are an important foundation for the development of China-US relations, and strengthening exchanges and cooperation is the aspiration of the people and the general trend.
What the US should do is take off its colored glasses and stop disrupting local and non-governmental exchanges between the two countries.
They should do more to pave the way for people-to-people friendship between the two countries.
They should also work with the Chinese side to jointly safeguard the public opinion foundation for the stable development of China-US relations.
BBC: The intelligence chiefs of the United States and the United Kingdom said at a joint press conference that China poses the greatest long-term threat to the national and economic security of many countries. What is China's comment?
Zhao Lijian: Relevant US politicians have always played up China's threats and smeared and attacked China.
The intelligence official's remarks fully exposed his deep-rooted Cold War zero-sum mentality and ideological bias.
America just celebrated its 246th Independence Day.
Looking back over the past 240 years, the United States has not fought a war for only 16 years, making it "the most warlike country in the history of the world."
Dakota Wood, a senior fellow in the Defense Program at the Heritage Foundation, once pointed out that the United States is involved in a war on average every 15 years.
In order to safeguard its hegemony and private interests, the United States has repeatedly violated the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and the basic norms of international relations. Relying on its hegemonic position in the fields of economy, science and technology, and military, the United States has launched wars everywhere, created split conflicts, and unreasonably suppressed other countries, including its allies. Enterprises have brought great turmoil and disaster to the world.
Facts have fully proved that the United States is the biggest threat to world peace and development.
We urge the US intelligence official to correct his mentality, view China's development objectively and rationally, and stop spreading lies and irresponsible remarks.
Regarding the relevant remarks of the British intelligence officials, as we all know, MI5 and MI6, as the British intelligence services, can be described as experts in "planting spies".
By publishing such out-of-the-box and alarmist reports, they are completely projecting their own dishonorable behavior on China, in order to play up the "China threat theory" and provoke confrontation.
We have reiterated many times that the goal of China's development is to enable the Chinese people to live a happy and beautiful life, not to target or replace anyone.
The head of the British intelligence department should get rid of his inner demons, walk out of the dark room to see the sunshine, and don't always stick to the old thinking of zero-sum game, and don't needlessly establish the so-called "imaginary enemy".
Reporter: I would like to seek Chinese comments on the details of the remarks made by the head of MI5.
Zhao Lijian: Their accusations against China are completely groundless, and the so-called cases they cited are purely based on speculation.
We strongly condemn this ugly performance of thieves shouting to catch thieves and deceiving the world.
China Daily: Since May 2021, the Helena Kennedy Center at Sheffield Hallam University has released four Xinjiang-related reports in succession, concocting the so-called "forced labor" lie in Xinjiang. Recently, after multiple inspections and on-site visits, I found that there were organized and purposeful gangs of lies behind the reports. The drafters of the report and the funders of the center were inextricably linked with terrorism and extremism. What is the comment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on this?
Zhao Lijian: I also saw this report in China Daily.
I give you a thumbs up, you did a great job!
I have noticed that the report mentioned that the so-called "research report" published by the relevant institution center of the university in the UK, the relevant drafters are either long-term funded by government agencies such as the US Department of Justice, or publicly admit that their relatives are suspects of terrorist activities.
The funder of the Helena Kennedy Center is the founder of an anti-China extremist political group.
The report's claims about so-called "forced labor" in Xinjiang are full of loopholes and cannot stand basic fact-checking, and have been repeatedly "slapped in the face" by relevant parties and companies.
As it turns out, some of the quotes in the report were either fake news or lies spread by the notorious Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
The center's "report" is a lie of the century about the existence of "forced labor" in Xinjiang. It is not only an academic shame, but also repeatedly cited by some anti-China politicians and media in the United States, which has become the basis for the US government to unreasonably sanction Xinjiang.
Judging from the relevant background of the scholars who concocted these "reports", it is not human rights that they care about and study.
They have no credibility and academic integrity, and they have been reduced to tools to take US money and spread false information.
I want to stress that a lie is always a lie, no matter how it is packaged.
With the objective and impartial media and personalities interviewing or witnessing on the spot, the real situation in Xinjiang has been more and more revealed, and more and more people have seen the origin, background and background of such Xinjiang-related lies. Mode of operation.
The international community should continue to strengthen screening, and do not let such sinister and clumsy lies blind the eyes of the world again.
Shenzhen TV: NASA Administrator Nielsen said on the 5th that China's space program is run by the military, while the U.S. space sector is carrying out peaceful, open and international civilian programs. What is China's comment?
Zhao Lijian: The remarks made by the US official are completely confusing right and wrong and confounding right and wrong.
The US is the main driver of the weaponization and battlefieldization of outer space. It has long pursued a strategy of leading outer space, vigorously developed and deployed outer space weapons, and held frequent outer space military exercises.
NASA and the U.S. military have no ties to each other.
In September 2020, the bureau signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation with the US Space Force.
The bureau has many military personnel, and Chief Nielsen himself served in the military.
The so-called international cooperation carried out by the United States is completely selective, and it does not hesitate to introduce unreasonable sanctions to suppress other space agencies.
China has always adhered to the peaceful use of space and actively promoted international cooperation in space.
Since the implementation of the manned space project, China has always adhered to the principles of peaceful utilization, equality and mutual benefit, and common development, and has signed cooperation agreements with a number of international space agencies and organizations, achieving fruitful results.
For example, China and Brazil carry out resource satellite cooperation, which is a model of South-South cooperation in the aerospace field; China promotes the establishment of the BRICS remote sensing satellite constellation, sharing remote sensing data, and assisting the economic and social development of the BRICS countries; the lunar exploration project, Chang'e-4, carries a passenger from Saudi Arabia. , the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and other countries for scientific exploration of international payloads to jointly carry out scientific research.
The US should stop ignoring facts and smear China, seriously examine its own negative words and deeds in the outer space field, earnestly shoulder its due responsibilities as a major country, and do more things that are conducive to China-US aerospace cooperation.
China News Service: According to reports, the UK will host an international ministerial conference on "religious freedom" in London from July 5 to 6. At the meeting, British officials made irresponsible remarks about other countries on the pretext of religious issues, and made groundless accusations against China on Xinjiang-related issues. What is China's comment?
Zhao Lijian: I know about this meeting.
Politicians of individual countries are accustomed to pointing fingers and smearing other countries under the banner of "religious freedom".
This time, British politicians disregarded the facts and deliberately slandered China.
China is strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposed to this.
China is a country ruled by law. The Chinese government protects citizens' freedom of religious belief and related rights in accordance with the law. People of all ethnic groups in China enjoy full freedom of religious belief in accordance with the law.
Over the years, China's achievements in protecting the rights and interests of religious persons in accordance with the law are obvious to all.
The freedom of religious belief and other legal rights of people of all ethnic groups in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, including the Uyghurs, have been fully guaranteed and effectively safeguarded.
Facts speak louder than words, justice is in the hearts of the people.
What the UK should do is to face up to and respect the facts, stop political manipulation, and stop using the so-called religious freedom issue to interfere in other countries' internal affairs.
If they have time, they should take care of their own affairs and effectively correct their own massive human rights violations.
"Macau Monthly" reporter: We have noticed that US Secretary of State Blinken and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed birthday congratulations to the 14th Dalai Lama. What is the comment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on this?
Zhao Lijian: Tibet affairs are China's internal affairs, and no external forces can interfere.
China firmly opposes any form of contact between official figures from any country and the 14th Dalai Lama.
For a long time, Tibet's economy has flourished, its society is harmonious and stable, its cultural traditions have been protected and carried forward, and the rights and freedoms of people of all ethnic groups, including freedom of religious belief and the freedom to use and develop their own spoken and written languages, have been fully guaranteed.
The 14th Dalai Lama was a political exile who engaged in anti-China separatist activities in religious guise.
We urge the US side to fully recognize the importance and sensitivity of Tibet-related issues, earnestly respect China's core interests, recognize the anti-China separatist nature of the Dalai clique, abide by the US side's commitments on Tibet-related issues, and refrain from any form of contact with the Dalai Lama. Stop sending misinformation to the outside world.
The Indian side should also fully recognize the anti-China separatist nature of the 14th Dalai Lama, abide by its commitment to China on Tibet-related issues, be cautious in words and deeds, and stop using Tibet-related issues to interfere in China's internal affairs.
Reuters: On Wednesday, the United States announced sanctions on a network of companies from China, the United Arab Emirates and other countries and regions, accusing it of helping Iranian companies transport and sell oil and petrochemicals to East Asia. What is the spokesperson's comment on this?
Zhao Lijian: China always firmly opposes the illegal and unreasonable unilateral sanctions and so-called "long-arm jurisdiction" imposed by the US.
We urge the U.S. side to abandon the wrong practice of resorting to sanctions, and contribute positive energy to maintaining the negotiation process of resuming the implementation of the JCPOA.
The international community, including China, conducts normal cooperation with Iran within the framework of international law.
This practice is reasonable and legal, does not harm the interests of third parties, and should be respected and protected.
Phoenix TV: Today is the 85th anniversary of the July 7th Incident. What is the comment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
Zhao Lijian: On July 7, 1937, Japanese militarism created the Lugouqiao Incident and launched an all-out war of aggression against China.
After indomitable and bloody battles, the Chinese people defeated the vicious Japanese militarist aggressors and won a great victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
This great victory is a great victory for the Chinese Communist Party to play its role as the mainstay, and an important part of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War. It is a victory for the Chinese people and a victory for the people of the world.
China has always advocated the development of China-Japan relations in the spirit of "taking history as a mirror and facing the future".
It is hoped that the Japanese side will earnestly face up to and reflect on the history of aggression, learn profound lessons, and stick to the path of peaceful development with concrete actions.