(ANSA) - BEIJING, NOVEMBER 29 - China accuses British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of "slander" and "ideological prejudice" for stating that the "golden era" of relations with Beijing was over, leaving room for a "systemic challenge to our values" to be faced with "robust pragmatism" in the face of repression in Hong Kong and human rights violations in Xinjiang.
The British side's remarks "are full of ideological bias and maliciously slander China's policies," Beijing replied in a statement from its embassy in London.
As for the policies on Hong Kong and Xinjiang, "it is China's internal affairs and Britain has no qualification or right to make irresponsible comments."
Furthermore, London "confuses black and white with ulterior motives and should reflect on its own colonial mentality", when instead it would do well to come to the side of China to "manage differences on the basis of mutual respect", putting aside prejudices, respecting the facts and "stopping to slander China by interfering in its internal affairs".
Because it is an approach that "artificially creates obstacles to the development of relationships".
(HANDLE).