China-US relations: America has ‘gone too far’ interfering in other countries’ affairs, Wang Yi says

‘Some people in the US better manage their own affairs first, abide by the principles of international relations,’ Chinese foreign minister says at press conference with Russian counterpart

Beijing ‘has never discussed formulating bills targeting the internal affairs of the United States, but the US Congress has frequently introduced various bills on internal affairs of China’, he says

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Foreign Minister Wang Yi says US should abide by principles of international relations. Photo: EPA-EFE

Published: 10:00pm, 12 Sep 2020Updated: 11:14pm, 12 Sep 2020

The United States should “better manage” its own affairs and stop meddling in those of other nations, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday.

“Now is the time for China to ask the United States not to interfere in China’s internal affairs,” the minister was quoted as saying in a transcript released on Saturday by the foreign ministry in Beijing of the joint press conference he held in Moscow with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.

“The National People’s Congress [China’s rubber-stamp parliament] has never discussed formulating bills targeting the internal affairs of the United States, but the US Congress has frequently introduced various bills on the internal affairs of China,” he said.

“The US has gone too far and stretched its hands too long!” Wang said. “We suggest some people in the US better manage their own affairs first, abide by the principles of international relations and stop interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.”

His comments came after US tech company Microsoft said on Thursday that in recent weeks it had detected cyberattacks from China, Russia and Iran that were designed to interfere in the US presidential election in November.

Chinese hackers had attacked people associated with presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign and other important figures from the international affairs community, Microsoft said, adding that the Chinese hacking group Zirconium had launched thousands of attacks between March and September, resulting in nearly 150 compromises.