Days after the deadly knife and bomb attack in Xinjiang, China on Friday slammed as “irresponsible” a US report criticising its lack of openness in dealing with terrorism and accused Washington of adopting double standards on the issue.
Expressing dissatisfaction with the China-related content in the US country report on terrorism for 2013 that termed Beijing’s cooperation to contain terrorism as “marginal”, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said China always attached great importance to international cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
“China is a victim of terrorism, and always firmly opposes terrorism in any form and terrorist acts conducted or backed by any person under any name,” Qin said in a statement here.
“On anti-terrorism issue, to make irresponsible remarks towards other countries and pursue double standards will not help international cooperation on counter-terrorism,”
he said.
His rebuttal came in the backdrop of the April 30 attack by alleged Uygur Islamic militants at a railway station in Urumqi, provincial capital of Xinjiang, in which three people including two suicide bombers were killed and 79 others injured in what Beijing called a “terrorist attack”.