Question: Today, Jeremy Fleming, head of GCHQ, the British intelligence agency, claimed that China is trying to use technology to export values, coerce other countries, and threaten global security. What is the comment of the Chinese side?

Embassy Spokesperson: The remarks made by the head of the British intelligence agency are full of prejudice and totally baseless. It is a malicious slander against China. We firmly oppose and strongly condemn it.

China is committed to the path of peaceful development, and has always been a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a defender of the international order, and a staunch force for world peace and common development. By contrast, a small number of countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, have been using their technological advantages to suppress and contain the development of other countries and stoke antagonism and confrontation, causing countless chaos and turmoil to the world. People have long made a fair judgment as to who are the threat to international peace and security.

China’s efforts to develop technology and promote international cooperation in science and technology are aimed at improving the life of the Chinese people and the well-being of humanity. Those who judge others according to their own practices, stick to and propagate the so-called “China threat”, and instigate antagonism and confrontation will only expose their sinister intention and ugly face, and ultimately shoot themselves in the foot.