China strongly urges the United States to abandon its Cold War mentality and ideological bias, and to refrain from implementing the negative content related to China in the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025, a spokesperson from China's top legislature said on Wednesday.
Noting that both houses of the US Congress passed the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2025 and President Joe Biden signed it into law, Xu Dong, spokesperson for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), expressed China's strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to the negative content targeting China.
He also criticized the NDAA for continually hyping up the "China threat," advocating military support for Taiwan, suppressing China's scientific, technological, and economic development, and restricting China-US economic, trade, and people-to-people exchanges. These acts grossly interfere with China's internal affairs and damage China's sovereignty, security, and development interests.
China has always handled its relations with the United States in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation and always believed that the success of both countries presents an opportunity for each other, Xu said, adding that the two countries should be a boost to each other's development rather than an obstacle, Xinhua news agency reported.
The steady, sound and sustainable development of China-US relations is not only vital to the two peoples but also to the future and destiny of humanity," the spokesperson said.
"It is inevitable that China and the United States, as two major countries, will have some differences and disagreements, but they should not undermine each other's core interests, still less engage in conflict and confrontation, " said Xu, stressing that Taiwan question, democracy and human rights, the path and system of China and China's development right should be "red lines which cannot be crossed.".
"We strongly urge the United States to abandon its Cold War mentality and ideological bias, not to implement the negative articles of the NDAA concerning China, and avoid repeating mistakes on issues concerning China's sovereignty and core interests. China will take resolute measures in accordance with the law to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests," Xu said.
