China angered by Britain's report on human rights, cancels talks
BEIJING/LONDON
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron leaves Downing Street in London December 19, 2012.
CREDIT: REUTERS/NEIL HALL
(Reuters) - China accused Britain on Tuesday of interfering in its domestic affairs after the British government criticised Beijing's human rights record.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Britain's annual human rights made "irresponsible remarks...about the Chinese political system, rudely slandering and criticising China's human rights situation".
She was speaking a day after China called off talks with Britain on Beijing's human rights record. Chinese and British officials had been due to hold a round of the two-way Human Rights Dialogue in London on Wednesday.
Britain listed China as "a country of concern" in its report last week, saying it had observed increased curbs on freedom of expression, association and assembly in 2013. It also cited reports of repression of ethnic unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang.
The two countries had agreed to resume the regular meetings during a trip to China by British Prime Minister David Cameron in December.
Hua told a daily news briefing that Britain must immediately stop using human rights as a pretext for interfering in China's internal politics and judicial sovereignty.
"Britain's path on this issue is not helpful to dialogue and discussion on the subject of human rights, and not good for the stable development of the health of China-U.K. relations," Hua said.
Cameron's visit in December was aimed at forging closer trade and business links between Britain and the world's second biggest economy, and at drawing a line under a dispute involving Tibet's spiritual leader that had led to a diplomatic freeze.
A spokeswoman from Cameron's office said Britain had registered its disappointment with the Chinese government.
"We believe a Human Rights Dialogue is essential, and are working on agreeing new dates," the spokeswoman said.
(Reporting by Megha Rajagopalan in BEIJING and Andrew Osborn in LONDON, Writing by Sui-Lee Wee, Editing by Angus MacSwan)
中國警告英國 為了經濟勿批人權
2014-06-14 07:38
〔本報訊〕中國駐英國大使劉曉明昨在記者會上警告英國，如果想要加強中英經濟聯繫與經濟獲益，就不要在人權問題上教訓中國。
英國外交部曾發表一份中國人權紀錄，報告把中國列入關注國家名單中，並指責中國當局在2013年加大了對自由表達和結社集會的壓制，這份報告觸怒了中國。
劉曉明昨在記者會上警告英國，不要插手中國人權問體。（圖擷取自《BBC》中文網）
劉曉明認為，這份報告沒有反映中國的全貌，英國對中國有很大的偏見，雖然英國在世界當中許多方面都處於領先地位，但中國已不把英國當作是歐洲最重要的國家。
先前有報導指出，中國威脅英國政府，若中國總理李克強在訪英行程中沒安排英國女王伊麗莎白見面，就會取消一連串的訪問，對此劉曉明表示，這種威脅方式，不是中國處事，他嚴正否認傳言。並強調，這只是安排上的誤會，中國政府認為總理和女王會談是理所當然的事情。
他表示，這次李克強的行程除了與女王會面外，還會與英國首相卡梅倫會談以及兩位政府首長，雙方將會簽署40項以上的政府協議和商業協議，其中包含能源、 投資、教育、金融等多個領域，總值至少有300億美元。
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