China News Service, Beijing, September 20 (Guo Chaokai and Xie Yanbing) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin hosted a regular press conference on September 20.
A reporter asked: A few days ago, the independent US investigative reporter Norton cited data released by the US Congressional Research Service and pointed out that from 1798 to 2022, the United States launched 469 military interventions overseas. Only in the short 30 years since the end of the Cold War, It was launched 251 times, far more than the sum of the more than 190 years before the end of the Cold War.
What is China's comment?
Wang Wenbin: I have noticed relevant reports.
The US has repeatedly claimed to respect and maintain the "rules-based international order". However, these data released by the US Congress fully reflect the belligerent nature and hegemonic background of the "US rules".
In the 240-year history of the United States, only 16 years have passed without a war.
With the end of the Cold War, the United States was expected to reduce its military operations overseas, but the opposite has been true.
The United States has launched military interventions more than seven times as often since the Cold War.
All of these figures are conservative estimates and do not include U.S. special operations and covert operations, etc.
Norton's report also pointed out that the target of US military interventions involves the vast majority of countries in the world, including almost all countries in Latin America and most of the African continent.
What the U.S. should do is not to talk about so-called rules and order, let alone accuse other countries of undermining peace and stability, but to reflect on and correct its own mistakes of waging wars and interfering in other countries’ internal affairs, and stop acting as the world’s largest war. maker.
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