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China's State Media Slams Trump's 'Emotional Venting' on Twitter
Source: New York Times
China’s State Media Slams Trump’s ‘Emotional Venting’ on Twitter
By CHRIS BUCKLEY and AUSTIN RAMZY AUG. 1, 2017
BEIJING — After President Trump pilloried China in 48 tweeted words over the weekend, accusing it of failing to tame its neighbor and longtime ally North Korea, Beijing issued its own rebuke to Mr. Trump — in a cutting editorial of 1,000 Chinese characters from Xinhua, the official news agency.
“Trump is quite a personality, and he likes to tweet,” said the Xinhua response issued late Monday and widely displayed on Chinese news websites. “But emotional venting cannot become a guiding policy for solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula,” it said, referring to the divided Korean Peninsula.
The United States, it said, “must not continue spurning responsibility” for the volatile standoff with North Korea, “and even less should it stab China in the back.”
The unusually personal nature of the editorial, together with comments delivered earlier that day by China’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York, show that North Korea is becoming the main dispute threatening to tear at Mr. Trump’s initially friendly relationship with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
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By CHRIS BUCKLEY and AUSTIN RAMZY AUG. 1, 2017
BEIJING — After President Trump pilloried China in 48 tweeted words over the weekend, accusing it of failing to tame its neighbor and longtime ally North Korea, Beijing issued its own rebuke to Mr. Trump — in a cutting editorial of 1,000 Chinese characters from Xinhua, the official news agency.
“Trump is quite a personality, and he likes to tweet,” said the Xinhua response issued late Monday and widely displayed on Chinese news websites. “But emotional venting cannot become a guiding policy for solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula,” it said, referring to the divided Korean Peninsula.
The United States, it said, “must not continue spurning responsibility” for the volatile standoff with North Korea, “and even less should it stab China in the back.”
The unusually personal nature of the editorial, together with comments delivered earlier that day by China’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York, show that North Korea is becoming the main dispute threatening to tear at Mr. Trump’s initially friendly relationship with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/world/asia/china-trump-north-korea.html
