The Spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce responded to the reporter's question on the recent passage of the US foreign military assistance package bill

On May 10, a reporter asked: Recently, US President Biden signed into law a package of bills on foreign military assistance, which contains a large number of negative provisions related to China. What is the comment of the Ministry of Commerce on this? A: China has noticed that on April 25, the US passed a package of bills on foreign military assistance, which contains a number of negative provisions related to China. The relevant provisions ignore the principles of market economy and fair competition, and unreasonably suppress other countries' enterprises in the name of so-called "national security", which is a typical act of unilateral bullying. The relevant bills also interfere in China's normal economic and trade exchanges with other countries, threaten to impose unilateral sanctions and "long-arm jurisdiction", and are even more blatant economic coercion. China is strongly dissatisfied with this and firmly opposes it. We urge the US to respect China's concerns and legitimate rights and interests, and refrain from implementing relevant negative provisions related to China. If the US insists on going its own way, China will take resolute measures to firmly defend its own rights and interests.