China on Wednesday harshly criticized the US Senate s passing of an innovation and competition bill, saying that the legislation is full of Cold War mentality, grossly interferes in China s internal affairs and is doomed to fail, urging Washington to halt the legislation to avoid further damaging China-US relations and cooperation.
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8 Jun 2021
China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), is considering a law that would formalize retaliation against other nations for sanctions against China for its human rights abuses, state-run media reported on Tuesday.
China’s state-run Xinhua news service portrayed the draft law as China striking back at dishonest critics who unfairly accuse it of atrocities.
“For some time … some Western countries have used Xinjiang and Hong Kong-related issues as part of their pretexts to spread rumors on and smear, contain and suppress China,” Xinhua argued, citing a “spokesperson office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee.” Xinjiang is the country’s westernmost region, home to the nation’s ethnic Uyghur minority. Multiple free states, including America, have declared China’s policy of concentration camp incarceration, forced sterilizations, torture, and slavery against
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Behaviors that infringe or harm the dignity, personal safety and freedom of doctors, such as insults, slander, threats or assaults, must be prohibited, a spokesman from China's top legislature said when he introduced a draft law on Friday.