China summons foreign diplomats in protest over sanctions

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BEIJING, 24 March, 2021, (TON): China on Tuesday said it called unfamiliar ambassadors in a fight after the United States, the European Union, Canada and Britain mutually forced approvals on senior Chinese authorities over supposed denials of basic liberties in China's far western Xinjiang locale.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying on Tuesday called the new sanctions a “slander and an affront to the reputation and dignity of the Chinese people.” 

“I admonish them that they should not underestimate the firm determination of the Chinese people to defend their national interests and dignity, and they will pay the price for their folly and arrogance,” Hua told the reporters in a briefing.

That came hours after the Chinese and Russian foreign ministers censured new wave analysis and authorizations against the two nations over common liberties. At a news gathering in the southern Chinese city of Nanning, China's Wang Yi and Russia's Sergei Lavrov dismissed external scrutinizes of their tyrant political frameworks and said they were working to additional worldwide advancement on issues from environmental change to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Countries should stand together to oppose all forms of unilateral sanctions,” Wang said. “These measures will not be embraced by the international community.”

Russia is additionally under Western assents over denials of basic freedoms and military animosity against Ukraine. Lavrov said Russia's binds with China developed further as Moscow's relations with the EU endured harm, while blaming the West for “imposing their own rules on everyone else, which they believe should underpin the world order.”

 “If Europe broke these relations, simply destroying all the mechanisms that have been created for many years ... Then, probably, objectively, this leads to the fact that our relations with China are developing faster than what’s left of relations with European countries,” Lavrov said.

In a joint statement issued after the meeting, the two ministers said no country should seek to impose its form of democracy on others.

The statement said, “Interference in a sovereign nation’s internal affairs under the excuse of advancing democracy’ is unacceptable,”

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