China to EU-US, joint declaration is from the Cold War

(ANSA) - BEIJING, JUN 16 - The Chinese mission to the EU has expressed "strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition" on the declaration of the EU-US summit on issues considered "internal" between Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the seas of eastern China and and the accusations in Beijing of "economic coercion" and "spreading disinformation".

    The statement "is full of Cold War mentality", said a spokesman for the mission, adding that "it has gone beyond the norm of developing bilateral relations".

   The act of the "small groups goes against the tide of history" for "international and regional peace and stability". (HANDLE).