China hits back at US Republican Party
China has urged the US Republican Party not to continue leveling “groundless accusations” against Beijing, saying the party is interfering in China’s domestic affairs.
In an English-language statement released on Thursday, China’s Foreign Ministry said a document published by the US Republican Party contained “accusations about China on issues related to Taiwan, Tibet, trade and the South China Sea,” which it said are considered to be an interference in the country’s internal affairs.
“All political parties in the United States should view China’s development in an objective and rational manner and correctly understand the issues that emerge in bilateral ties,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang further said in the statement, which was carried by the official Xinhua news agency.
In the document, the so-called 2016 platform which was released on Monday, the Republican Party harshly slammed Beijing for adopting alleged repressive policies toward its people.
“The liberalizing policies of recent decades have been abruptly reversed, dissent brutally crushed, religious persecution heightened, the internet crippled, a barbaric population control two-child policy of forced abortions and forced sterilizations continued, and the cult of Mao revived,” the GOP said in the document.
China-bashing on steroids
It marked a significant change in attitude toward Beijing, compared to the Republican Party’s much more conciliatory tone in its 2012 document regarding the Asian giant.
On Wednesday, the Chinese state-run Global Times published a harshly-worded editorial targeting the GOP and its presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
In the editorial, the online paper called Trump a “master of manipulating negativity,” who is “capitalizing on the confusion and insecurity of the US working class.”
It also said that the GOP, in the 66-page platform, seemed to have given in to “Trump’s wackiness,” adding that it mentioned China over 20 times, with none “in a positive context.”
“The severity of this round of China-bashing, although a routine tactic in the US presidential season, is one of the harshest, indicating how desperate Trump is to paper over the US’s own problems and create an illusion that he has the solutions,” the editorial further read.
China and the US have had differences on a number of issues, including most recently on Chinese territorial claims to areas within the South China Sea and the deployment in South Korea of US missiles.
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