Beijing | EGINDO.co – Beijing menuduh Amerika Serikat (AS) pada hari Jumat (21/4) melakukan “pemaksaan ekonomi dan intimidasi teknologi”, sebagai tanggapan atas potensi pembatasan baru Washington terhadap kemampuan perusahaan-perusahaan AS untuk berinvestasi di entitas-entitas China.
Pemerintahan Biden sedang mempertimbangkan sebuah program untuk membatasi investasi keluar AS tertentu yang melibatkan teknologi sensitif tertentu dengan implikasi keamanan nasional yang signifikan.
Ambisi Beijing di sektor teknologi telah terpukul oleh langkah-langkah yang diberlakukan oleh Washington dan sekutunya, dengan pihak berwenang Tiongkok menggandakan kebutuhan untuk beralih dari impor untuk sektor-sektor utama seperti semikonduktor.
“The US is accustomed to politicising, instrumentalising, and weaponising issues of trade and technology under the guise of national security,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular news briefing.
“This is naked economic coercion and technological bullying,” he added.
During a Thursday speech, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sought to allay concerns about the new measures, saying that they were “motivated solely by our concerns about our security and values”.
But Beijing maintains the plans are intended to block its path to economic advancement as relations between the two countries continue to sour.
“The real aim of the US is to deprive China of its right to development and safeguard its own hegemony and self-interest,” Wang said on Friday.
Yellen also referred to the previously proclaimed “no-limits partnership” between China and Russia, saying it was “essential” that Beijing refrains from providing Moscow with material support for the war in Ukraine.
When asked about Yellen’s comments on Friday, Wang defended China’s position on the conflict, contrasting it with what he called “certain countries practising double standards and adding fuel to the fire”.
“China and Russia have always adhered to the principles of non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third parties, and have developed a new type of major-country relationship featuring mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation,” he said.
Sumber : CNA/SL