Chinese Embassy cautions US not to interfere in internal affairs

The Chinese Embassy yesterday issuing a statement urged the US administration to immediately stop interfering in China’s internal affairs, following the recent sanctions of the US and the US Ambassador’s interview on the Daily FT.

The full statement is as follows.

The US administration newly banned 24 Chinese companies from buying American products with an accusation of them constructing on Chinese islands and helping ‘militarising’ the South China Sea. These sanctions are totally against the truth and violating international law and norms. China firmly opposes it, and has urged the US administration to rectify its mistakes and immediately stop interfering in China’s internal affairs.

The truth witnessed by all the international community is that the US has become the saboteur and troublemaker of peace and stability in the South China Sea and the world beyond. It is the US that keeps militarising the world and the region, by maintaining nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries, deploying approximately 165,000 troops abroad, and spending more than $ 100 billion annually on foreign bases and personnel. 

The US has frequently dispatched in large numbers warships and fighter jets all the way to the South China Sea which is tens of thousands miles away from its homeland, to project its power and engage in military provocations, undermining regional countries’ sovereignty and security interests as well as the normal order in the South China Sea.

In recent years, the US has been abandoning multilateralism, and imposed dozens of unilateral sanctions on different countries including China, Sri Lanka and even its own allies, with typical hegemonic logic and power politics, which are strongly objected by the international community. Such unilateral and unjust sanctions from the US that severely intervene other sovereign countries’ internal affairs have no international legal effect at all and should not be accepted and tolerated.

We understand that the US is facing quite a few domestic challenges including anti-racism, economy revival and COVID-19 pandemic, and we hope the US administration could concentrate more on its internal problems, listen to the voice of the global community, honour the multilateralism and international justice and order, make its due contribution to the socioeconomic development of the world, and bring more benefits to its own people and other developing countries including Sri Lanka.