China's foreign ministry said on Thursday that Beijing does not interfere in other countries' internal affairs, after U.S. President Donald Trump accused it of seeking to meddle in the Nov. 6 U.S. congressional elections.
The international community is clear which country interferes most in other countries' affairs, ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular briefing in Beijing.
Geng also urged the United States to stop doing things that damaged relations with China.
Trump on Wednesday told a U.N. Security Council meeting that Beijing was interfering because they did not want his Republican Party to do well, given the party's pugnacious stance on trade.
China executed a man on Thursday for killing nine students and injuring 11 others in a knife attack at a middle school in central China's Shaanxi province in April, according to a post on a Chinese court's official social media account.Zhao Zewei was sentenced to death in July after being charged with homicide for attacking 19 students near a middle school in Mizhi county in China's northwestern province of Shaanxi on April 27.After receiving approval from China's supreme court, the death sentence was carried out in Mizhi county of Shaanxi on Thursday, according to the statement from the Yulin City Intermediate Court.Zhao had said he had taken knives into his former school in order to vent frustration and anger over his misfortunes in life and the bullying he was subjected to while attending the school, the statement said.China says sincere in wanting to keep improving Vatican tiesBut the motives for depriving others of life were "despicable" and the methods were especially cruel, and so the supreme court agreed to the use of the death penalty, it cited the supreme court as ruling.Violent crime is rarer in China than many other countries, due in part to strict gun controls and tight security in major cities. Recent years have seen a series of knife and axe attacks, however, including one this year in Beijing.China does not release official figures for the number of people it executes every year, but rights groups estimate that more people are executed annually in the country than in all other countries combined.
China executes man who killed nine in school stabbing
China says hopes trade frictions with U.S. can be resolved
China hopes its trade frictions with the United States can be resolved, but it has prepared for all eventualities, the commerce ministry said on Thursday.
China's economy will not collapse under Washington's threats and U.S. officials should not underestimate China's determination and capabilities, the ministry said.
China says opposes provocative U.S. military aircraft action in S.China Sea
China is resolutely opposed to U.S. military aircraft taking provocative actions in South China Sea and demanded the U.S. take steps to improve military relations, China's defence ministry said on Thursday.
Defence ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang made the comments at a regular monthly news briefing.