Beijing, 16th July 2020: Two of the world’s biggest economies, the U.S. and China, have been caught in the throes of a bitter and potentially catastrophic trade war over the past year.
China slammed the US on Thursday, at its ‘dirty play’ against the Chinese telecom giant Huawei. China took a shot at Washington’s ongoing human rights riots on racism after the US posed restrictions against the Chinese telecom company Huawei.
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The reaction came after the US announced to put visa restrictions for Huawei employees and those of other Chinese firms if they were involved in human rights abuses.
After Britain announced a ban on Huawei, the Trump administration rejoiced in isolating the Chinese firm too.
Both China and the United States have been crossing swords on a rising number of fronts, including Beijing’s policies on Hong Kong.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that this meant Britain was joining the US and “many other democracies in becoming ‘clean countries'”, a comment that drew a fiery response from Beijing on Thursday.
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying retorted that “what the US does has nothing to do with the word ‘clean'”.
“What it does is… dirty play,” she said at a regular briefing.
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Hua questioned the basis of the US visa restrictions, charging that “racial discrimination is everywhere in America”. She added: “If Mr. Pompeo is sincere, we can refrain from imposing visa restrictions on him.”
“We welcome him to visit Xinjiang,” Hua added, referring to the western Chinese region where rights groups say over one million Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims are incarcerated.
Pompeo has accused Huawei of breaching the privacy of its users by letting China use the information it gathers about its customers through surveillance. However, China has denied all such accusations.
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