The United States' attempts to hold back China's economic and technology progress will not succeed and by doing so the U.S. will backfire on itself while hurting others, an official from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.
Yang Tao, director-general of the Foreign Ministry's Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, briefed the media on U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan's visit to China on Thursday evening.
On questions related to economic, trade and technological issues, Yang said that the so-called "small yard with high fences" of the United States has kept expanding and become limitless.
"The so-called 'national security' has become a basket in which anything can be put. The narrative of so-called 'overcapacity' is but another excuse for protectionism. Behind these are still the U.S. misperception of China, and its hegemonic mentality of seeking absolute security and absolute advantage," Yang told reporters.
He noted that the United States should know that it is impossible for China to permanently stay at the medium and low end of the industrial chain. China has the capability, the need and the right to climb up toward the medium and high end.
"The United States should also know that China-U.S. economic and trade relations are mutually beneficial in nature, and suppressing China's economic and technological advancement hurts itself as well as others, and will not succeed," said the director-general.
At the invitation of Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, Sullivan visited China from August 27 to 29 for a new round of China-U.S. strategic communication. This is the first visit to China by a national security advisor to the U.S. President after eight years, the first visit to China by Sullivan in his term.
Stifling China’s economic, technological progress benefits no one: FM
