China urged the US to make sure that Chinese language residents get pleasure from truthful entry therapy (Representational)
Beijing:
China’s public safety minister urged the US homeland safety secretary to cease alleged “harassment” of Chinese language college students coming into the USA in a gathering between the 2 in Vienna, Beijing’s state media reported Monday.
In a readout of talks Sunday between Wang Xiaohong and Alejandro Mayorkas, Beijing urged Washington “to cease harassing and checking Chinese language college students for no obvious motive”, state information company Xinhua mentioned.
Beijing has repeatedly alleged that Chinese language nationals with legitimate journey paperwork have been topic to aggressive interrogations and deportations at US airports, with its embassy in Washington final month urging Chinese language travellers to keep away from the capital’s Dulles airport.
In his assembly with Mayorkas, Wang urged the USA to “make sure that Chinese language residents get pleasure from truthful entry therapy and full dignity,” in line with Xinhua.
Wang additionally pressed Mayorkas to “rectify” the US determination to position China on a listing of main international locations transiting or producing narcotics.
US officers have lengthy charged that China is complicit within the commerce of fentanyl, which is many occasions extra highly effective than heroin and is accountable for greater than 70,000 overdose deaths a yr in the USA.
Final month in Beijing, US and Chinese language officers agreed to cooperate to curb the manufacturing of substances to make fentanyl, referred to as precursor chemical substances.
A US readout of Sunday’s talks mentioned Wang and Mayorkas had held “candid and constructive dialogue on the steps wanted to fight the unfold of precursor chemical substances”.
“The 2 sides additionally made commitments with respect to continued legislation enforcement cooperation, technical bilateral exchanges between scientists and different consultants, scheduling of precursor chemical substances, and furthering multilateral cooperation,” it mentioned.
Washington and Beijing additionally mentioned increasing cooperation “within the battle to guard kids from on-line youngster sexual exploitation and abuse”, the readout added.
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