Foreign Ministry: The so-called "China Action Plan" is just a clumsy tool for the ANTI-China forces in the United States to contain and suppress China

Source: CCTV news client

On January 18, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian presided over a regular press conference. A reporter asked that U.S. prosecutors are expected to drop charges against university professor Chen Gang. At least eight defendants have been dropped in the past year in connection with the China Action Plan. What is the Foreign Ministry's comment on The Chen Gang case and the China Action Plan?

Zhao Lijian said: I will not comment on the JUDICIAL CASES OF THE UNITED STATES. I would like to reiterate that the Chinese government has always maintained that relevant talent exchanges and cooperation are based on abiding by the law, upholding scientific integrity and abiding by professional ethics, and that relevant policies and measures are not fundamentally different from the common practices of other countries.

Zhao Lijian said that there is an old Chinese saying: "If you want to add to your sins, you will not be able to do anything." The so-called "China Action Plan" of the US Department of Justice first sets the case handling targets, and then investigates and handles the case, which will only lead to unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. The vast majority of the program's compilation of "typical cases" over the past two years have reportedly not involved intellectual property and commercial theft. This practice of disregarding judicial justice and unjustifiably imposing charges has aroused strong opposition and condemnation from righteous people in the world. Nearly 2,000 scholars from universities across the United States jointly sent a letter to the U.S. attorney general questioning the plan; 192 Yale professors jointly wrote to the U.S. attorney general arguing that the plan was fundamentally flawed; more than 20 Asian-American groups jointly sent a letter to the president of the United States to stop the program; and the Chinese-American Federation organized protest demonstrations outside the U.S. Department of Justice to stop the "China Action Plan."

Zhao Lijian pointed out: Facts have proved that the essence of the so-called "China Action Plan" is nothing more than a clumsy tool for the ANTI-China forces in the United States to abuse the concept of national security and contain and suppress China. The US side should listen to the just voices of all walks of life, correct its erroneous practices as soon as possible, stop using China as an "imaginary enemy," stop fabricating excuses to smear and suppress China, and stop interfering with and undermining normal sino-US exchanges and cooperation in the fields of science and technology and humanities. (CCTV reporter Zhao Jing, Kong Luyuan)