(ANSA-AFP) - BEIJING, MAR 7 - President Xi Jinping has
condemned what he branded an American-led "suppression of
China", as he urged the country's private sector to boost
innovation and become more self-reliant. China's technology
ambitions have been hit with a raft of restrictions by the
United States and its Western allies, and Beijing has doubled
down on the need to shift away from imports for sectors
perceived as vital to national security, such as semiconductors
and artificial intelligence.
China's foreign minister Qin Gang later said the relationship
between China and the US needed to be based on mutual interests
and friendship, rather than "US domestic politics and hysterical
neo-McCarthyism". In a wide-ranging press conference, former US
ambassador Qin dismissed warnings from Western countries that
China may supply arms to Russia for its war in Ukraine, saying
it would not accept "blame-shifting, sanctions, suppression and
threats" targeting Beijing. (ANSA-AFP).
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