(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei has urged the United States to abandon discriminatory practices against Chinese enterprises. Hong's remarks came Thursday after U.S. President Barack Obama signed a spending bill on Tuesday that will bar some U.S.
government agencies from purchasing information technology systems made by Chinese companies linked to the government. Hong said the bill, created on the pretext of boosting cyber security, adopts discriminatory practices toward Chinese companies and is harmful to China-U.S. mutual trust as well as bilateral trade relations.
"We hope the U.S. side could get rid of such a move and do more things that will promote the development of bilateral ties and mutual trust," said Hong in a statement relayed by Xinhua news agency earlier Thursday.
For his part, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has recently called on China and the United Sates to work together to expand common interests to make them outweigh the differences between the two nations. "China and the United States should increase their mutual trust and expand common interests so that they can outweigh the differences between the two sides.
More favorable conditions should be created for cooperation in different fields and concerted efforts should be endeavored to build a new type of relationship between the two big nations," Li said in his meeting with visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew.
Given the weakness of the world economic recovery, Li called on the international community, including the U.S., to actively work together to make handling economic issues a priority. "As major world economic powers, China and the United States have great influence over the recovery process of the world economy," Li said.
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