BBC: The UK’s former Prime Minister Liz Truss made a speech in Japan this afternoon, criticizing China’s human rights conditions and proposing closer cooperation between NATO and Pacific defense allies, as she called them. She called for the creation of an economic NATO in the region, and I suppose, use trade and things like that to counter China’s reach. Also, she said that regional countries should provide a package of coordinated defense, economic, political measures to support Taiwan. Does the Chinese government have any response to these suggestions of the former British Prime Minister Liz Truss? 

Wang Wenbin: I haven’t gone through the speech you mentioned. But we are always opposed to the move to distort facts and smear China.

We would like to remind certain British politician a fact. According to a survey done by well-established international pollster , the approval rate of the Chinese government among the Chinese people is above 93 percent. This, I believe, is a clear rebuttal to the remarks you cited. We would also like to stress that China has always been a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development and a defender of world order. China’s development creates opportunities for the world and serves world peace, stability and common development. The notion that China threatens other countries’ security, and engages in economic coercion is utterly groundless. The Taiwan question is purely China’s internal affair. No country has the right to interfere under any pretext.