Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Thursday that the United Kingdom should "be prudent in its words and actions" and "stop making groundless accusations against China and interfering in China's internal affairs." She made the remarks in response to British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly's speech in which he criticized Beijing's human rights record and the tensions with Taiwan.
"Bloc politics and the Cold War mentality are against the trend of history and do not serve the interests of the UK or any other party in the world," Mao said. She added that the UK no longer has any jurisdiction over Hong Kong, that it has "deliberately smeared and slandered" China over Xinjiang, and that the UK needs to "strictly abide" by the one-China principle and reject Taiwan's "separatist activities."
