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On December 26, ** spokesperson Mao Ning held a regular press conference.
A reporter asked, on December 22, local time, Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 into law, and the case contains negative provisions related to China. Do you have any comment?
Mao Ning said that the US side insisted on passing and signing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which contains negative content related to China, and China expresses strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to this, and has lodged solemn representations with the US side. The bill interferes in China's internal affairs, clamours US military support for Taiwan, and violates the one-China principle and the three Sino-US joint communiques. We urge the US side to earnestly implement the commitment of the US leader not to support the "Taiwan issue", stop manipulating the Taiwan issue, and stop jeopardizing peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
It is not in the interests of either side to exaggerate the threat of China, suppress Chinese companies, and restrict normal economic and trade exchanges and people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States. The US should abandon the Cold War mentality and ideological bias and create a favorable environment for China-US cooperation in various fields such as economy and trade.
Mao Ning said that we urge the US side to work with China in the same direction, implement the important outcomes and consensus of the China-US summit in San Francisco, and refrain from implementing the negative provisions of the above-mentioned bill. If the US insists on going its own way, China will take resolute and forceful measures to firmly defend its sovereignty, security and development interests.
Text: Beijing Youth Daily reporter Dong Xin.
Edited by Ma Xiaoqing.