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(21 Dec 2022)
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Beijing - 21-Dec-2022
1. Wide of news conference
2. Wide of journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson:
“The relevant party (United States) should stop making unfounded accusations and spreading rumors against China, stop advocating confrontation and creating imaginary enemies, stop using NATO as a tool to maintain hegemony and mess up the world, discard Cold War thinking and camp confrontation, and do more to contribute to world peace and stability.”
4. Wide of journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson:
“We are adapting our COVID response measures to the new developments in the epidemic, so as to better coordinate epidemic response and socio-economic development. Currently, the vaccination of booster shots is progressing in an orderly manner, and the medicines and testing reagents can generally meet the demand.”
6. Mid of journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
“We have been sticking to a principle to address COVID and social development in a balanced and coordinated manner, aiming at win-win results. We took the lead to resume work and production, actively promoted a high-level opening-up, optimized visa policies, increased international flights in an orderly manner, simplified the remote working measures and other arrangements to facilitate the flow of people and made an important contribution to the stability of the global industrial and supply chain. We will provide more convenience for cross-border travel in light of developments of the situation.”
8. Wide of news conference

STORYLINE:
China on Wednesday called on the U.S. to stop making “unfounded accusations” after the US ambassador to NATO warned of Beijing and Moscow's challenges to the unity of the military alliance.

Ambassador Julianne Smith said in a recent interview that China and Russia were “increasingly sharing a toolkit” to “divide…the trans-Atlantic partners.”

But at the daily briefing in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning pushed back against this allegation, urging the U.S. to stop “creating imaginary enemies" and to refrain from using NATO "as a tool to maintain hegemony and mess up the world”.

Separately, Mao said the country’s medicines and testing kits could “generally" meet demand, after the U.S. State Department offered to share COVID-19 vaccines with China to stem soaring infections across the country.

China is seeing a surge of cases after the government last week eased some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 containment measures.

Mao also again defended her country's COVID response, and indicated that the government would “provide more convenience" for cross-border travel "in light of developments of the situation”.

Her comment followed rumors that Beijing was expected to further ease its quarantine policy on inbound travelers early next year.

China has been requiring those arriving from abroad to be quarantined at a hotel or private home since the pandemic broke out three years ago.

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