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Chinese foreign minister hit back at US, accusing it of trying repeatedly to “attack and smear” of China.
Beijing, China:
The united states is pressing to relations with China “at the brink of a new Cold War”, the Chinese foreign minister said on Sunday, with tensions rising over coronavirus, Hong Kong and other issues.
“It has come to our attention that some political forces in the united states are taking China-US relations hostage and pushing our two countries to the brink of a new Cold War,” foreign minister Wang Yi, told reporters.
Long-standing friction between the two powers over trade, human rights and other issues have been pushed to new heights from the COVID-19 outbreak.
Wang does not identify which “forces” he was referring to, but the american President Donald Trump has brought world criticism of China’s initial response to the epidemic, which has caused more than 330,000 deaths and economic carnage across the world.
The introduction in China of the legislature on Friday of a proposal to impose a security law in Hong Kong to suppress the semi-autonomous city’s pro-democracy movement has raised the temperature, the drawing of US and world condemnation.
But Wang hit back at Washington, accusing it of trying repeatedly to “attack and smear” of China.
“Apart from the devastation caused by the new coronavirus, also there is a political virus that spreads through the U.S.,” Wang said at a press conference on the side of the annual legislative meeting.
“This virus is to use every opportunity to attack and discredit China. Some politicians ignore basic facts, and have invented many lies orientation of China, and represent too many conspiracies.”
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