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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 10 (with the reporter’s permission) In response to accusation by US Secretary of State Pompeo that the People’s Daily refused to publish an article by the US ambassador In China Branstad, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on the 10th that the US measure was clearly It has nothing to do with freedom of the press, it is completely designed and deliberately touched to find fault. The United States hopes to publish an article is false, and it is true to establish a framework.
Zhao Lijian told a regular press conference that day that the “People’s Daily” spokesperson responded to Pompeo’s fallacy, presenting the truth in detail, and the relevant latitude and longitude are very clear. On August 26, the U.S. Embassy in China took the initiative to contact the newspaper, requesting the publication of an article signed in Branstad before September 4, emphasizing that the article should be published in its entirety without modifications, and requested that it be published on August 27. I mean, the next day I got an answer. The content of this article is full of loopholes, is seriously inconsistent with the facts, and is full of vicious attacks and smears against China. The strange thing is that on August 27, just as the newspaper was studying this article, the United States Undersecretary of State, Steve Scott, had already made representations to the Chinese embassy in Washington to express the alleged concerns.
“My friends from the foreign media here, if China is like the United States, today I will give you an article that seriously distorts the facts and attacks your country, and asks you to respond tomorrow and promise not to make any changes and publish the full text The US measure obviously has nothing to do with freedom of the press. It is completely and deliberately designed to find fault. The US hope of publishing articles is false, and it is true that the establishment of the situation is true. ” .
Zhao Lijian said that in fact, according to the People’s Daily spokesperson, the newspaper had published articles signed by former US ambassadors to China such as Bocas and Huntsman, and also actively supported the publication of two articles from the Global Times newspaper. An article signed by Branstad. “I can also tell you that when Branstad was governor, the” People’s Daily “ran an article about him. On the one hand, individual American politicians used the” People’s Daily “and other Chinese media as the so-called” propaganda machine “of the Chinese Communist Party. “The reason is that they are brutally repressed and, on the other hand, they demand that the ‘propaganda machine’ in their eyes make false propaganda for the United States and brutally attack the Chinese government. The relevant practices are logically confusing and unreasonable. “
“Like the American media and any other outlet, the People’s Daily has the full right to decide whether and when to publish a manuscript. It has the full right to make necessary revisions and edits to the manuscript, and it also has the full right to refuse publication. With obvious factual errors. And articles full of prejudices. These are the norms of the news industry and conform to international practice. The United States must stop spreading rumors and lies, abandon intimidation practices and respect press freedom with practical actions, ”he said.
