{"id":114370,"date":"2023-05-22T09:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T06:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/china-hits-back-at-g7-nations-accusing-them-of-smears-and-slander\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T06:05:01","slug":"china-hits-back-at-g7-nations-accusing-them-of-smears-and-slander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/china-hits-back-at-g7-nations-accusing-them-of-smears-and-slander\/","title":{"rendered":"China hits back at G7 nations, accusing them of \u2018smears\u2019 and \u2018slander\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114370\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nBeijing has accused the G7 nations of collaborating to \u201csmear and attack\u201d China, after the weekend summit issued a communique that warned Beijing over its \u201cmilitarisation activities\u201d in the Asia-Pacific region. After the summit, China summoned the Japanese ambassador to register an official protest, and warned the UK to stop \u201cslandering\u201d the country to avoid further damage to bilateral relations. Chinese regulators also chose the weekend to announce that US chip firm, Micron Technology, had failed a security review and would be banned from use in Chinese critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The G7 communique, issued on Saturday, stated that it wanted \u201cconstructive and stable relations\u201d with Beijing, referring to \u201cde-risking\u201d rather than \u201cde-coupling\u201d from their relationship with China amid warnings from France that the summit should not be seen as being anti-Beijing. But it also outlined key concerns over militarisation in the East and South China Seas, China\u2019s intentions towards Taiwan, and human rights concerns in Xinjiang and Tibet.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of the Quad group \u2013 Australia, India, Japan and the US \u2013 also delivered a thinly veiled criticism of Beijing, calling for &#8216;peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific maritime domain&#8217;. \u201cWe strongly oppose destabilising or unilateral actions that seek to change the status quo by force or coercion,\u201d the statement said, using diplomatic language that appeared to refer to China\u2019s economic tactics to gain leverage over poorer countries and also its military expansion in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>In response, China\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs on Saturday accused the G7 of \u201chindering international peace, undermining regional stability and curbing other countries\u2019 development\u201d. On Monday China\u2019s deputy foreign minister, Sun Weidong, summoned the Japanese ambassador to register an official protest over what the ministry called the \u201chype around China-related issues\u201d at the summit.Sun claimed Japan had collaborated with other countries at the summit through \u201cactivities and joint declarations \u2026 to smear and attack China, grossly interfering in China\u2019s internal affairs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said Japan\u2019s actions were detrimental to China\u2019s sovereignty, security and development interests, and that China is \u201cstrongly dissatisfied and firmly opposes\u201d them. \u201cJapan should correct its understanding of China, grasp strategic autonomy \u2026 and truly promote the stable development of bilateral relations with a constructive attitude,\u201d Sun said. Japanese officials said their country\u2019s position on China had been consistent, while Hideo Tarumi, the Japanese ambassador to China, said the G7 would continue to refer to issues of common concern as long as China does not change its behaviour, according to a statement. \u201cChina should first take positive steps to address those issues of concerns if China demands not to refer to them,\u201d Tarumi is said to have told Sun.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Chinese embassy in Britain hit back at comments by UK prime minister Rishi Sunak, saying China represented the world\u2019s greatest challenge to security and prosperity, but that other leading economies should not decouple from it. The embassy statement asked the UK government to stop slandering and smearing China to avoid further damage to China-UK relations. \u201cThe relevant remarks by the British side are simply parroting words from others and constitute malicious slanders in disregard of the facts. China firmly opposes and strongly condemns this,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Sunday, Chinese regulators announced US chip maker, Micron Technology, had failed a two month security review, and Chinese critical infrastructure would be barred from using it. Although Micron\u2019s market share in China is small, the timing of the announcement during G7 was important, said Christopher Miller, a professor at Tufts University. Miller said the Micron ban could be the first test of the \u201cde-risking\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The G7 leaders had also agreed to establish an initiative to counter economic \u201ccoercion.\u201d \u201cThis case could be an early test of the G7\u2019s efforts on this front,\u201d Miller said. Beijing\u2019s pushback on the summit also continued to play out across state media. The official news outlet Xinhua reported that the G7 \u201ccovered many topics but unfortunately ended with a focus on interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and hindering their development\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It said the communique \u201cunwarrantedly depicting the country as a trouble-maker\u201d, and that it and other documents \u201chype up China threats, [and] make a truce out of reach regarding Ukraine crisis\u201d. Despite the anger from Beijing, US president Joe Biden told reporters on Sunday he expects there to soon be improvements in the US-China relationship. \u201cIn terms of talking with them, I think you\u2019re going to see that thaw very shortly,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>US-China relations have soured in recent years, and recent attempts to get them back on track were derailed in February, when the US shot down a Chinese spy balloon it detected flying in US airspace.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/22\/china-summons-japanese-ambassador-over-smears-at-g7-summit\">The Guardian<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/china-hits-back-at-g7-nations-accusing-them-of-smears-and-slander\/\">China hits back at G7 nations, accusing them of \u2018smears\u2019 and \u2018slander\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[758,1539,2134,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-114370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-g7","tag-nation","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}