China News Service, Beijing, April 8 (Xinhua) On April 7, local time, the spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom responded to reporters' questions about the British Defense Secretary's erroneous remarks related to China.
A reporter asked: British Defense Secretary Shapps published an article in the "Daily Telegraph" claiming that the world has entered a "pre-war world" from a "post-war world" and falsely claimed that China is becoming more and more "warlike." What's your opinion?
A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the UK said that the British politician's China-related remarks ignored the facts, confounded right and wrong, and maliciously slandered China. China is firmly opposed to it.
The embassy spokesperson said that China has always adhered to the path of peaceful development. In the 75 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, it has never initiated a war or occupied an inch of other people's land. China is the only country that has written peaceful development into its constitution, and is the only country among the five nuclear-weapon countries that has pledged not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. China pursues a defensive national defense policy, and its national defense construction focuses on safeguarding its own security. Facts have proven that China has always been a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the international order.
The spokesperson of the embassy said that for many years, the British side has been keen to follow certain countries to stir up trouble everywhere, and the chaos their belligerence has caused in many parts of the world is still clearly visible to this day. British politicians should reflect on this.
The spokesperson of the embassy emphasized that today's world is deeply integrated and requires cooperation among all countries to meet challenges. Exaggerating the Cold War mentality and inciting camp confrontation goes against the trend of the times and is destined to be cast aside by history. We advise British politicians to curb their bellicose remarks, stop making groundless accusations against China, pay more attention to the domestic economy and people's livelihood, and do more things that are conducive to world peace and stability. (over)