On the 8th, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs actively defended the editorials and articles of the official newspapers Global Times and Global Times, which slandered President Yoon Seok-yeol’s diplomatic actions and Korean foreign policy by using inappropriate expressions day after day, saying that they “reflect China’s public opinion.”
According to Global Network and Central News Agency, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference that afternoon that the Korean Embassy in China strongly responded to the report of the Global Times, which had been representing the external position of Xi Jinping’s leadership on the 4th. Regarding the official sending of a letter of protest, he claimed as such, saying, “We have been watching the report and are also paying attention to the Global Times’ response.”
Spokesperson Wang said, “Recently, negative public opinion between China and South Korea should not come out, but we all know the cause.” ”he insisted.
At the same time, spokesman Wang shifted responsibility, saying, “As managing the source facts is the key to avoiding negative public opinion, I hope the South Korean side will make more constructive efforts on this.”
Previously, the Korean Embassy in China sent a letter of protest to the Global Times and the Global Times on the 4th, saying, “We use sensational, stimulating, and inappropriate vocabulary to provide objective evidence for the foreign policy of our leaders and the Korean government, which pursues peace and stability in the region, from a very biased point of view. It was unilaterally slandered without warning,” he said, “expressing strong regret and urging prevention of a recurrence.”
The letter of protest said, “Some of the content that groundlessly criticizes our leader by using low-level expressions that are difficult to say are to the point of doubting whether they are reports from the media.” “If we publish “, the Chinese people will have to carefully consider how to accept it from the perspective of whether or not it is wrong,” he criticized severely.
In September 2017, the Korean Embassy in China also sent a letter of protest to the Global Times, which criticized the South Korean government for deploying the High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.
At the time, the Global Times said, “Is it not that South Korean conservatives have become foolish by eating only kimchi?” ‘It will be,’ he said, incurring anger.
In response to the Korean side’s protest, the Global Times and the Global Times refuted in an editorial on the 8th that they were protesting, saying that they were “violent interference” in other countries’ media reports.
The Global Times and others claimed that “criticism of the Yoon Seok-yeol government’s ‘humiliation diplomacy’ came from within Korea,” and threatened that “Korea’s public words and actions related to China rather arouse strong antipathy and alarm in Chinese society.”
Source: Donga
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