BEIJING, June 6: China angrily rebuffed on Monday a US call to re-examine the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, justifying its actions while telling Washington to stay out of its internal affairs.
Foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan suggested the United States should instead ‘pay more attention to activities which severely violated human rights in its own country’.
He repeated the Chinese government’s position that the June 4 crackdown was necessary to maintain social stability.
On Saturday State Department spokesman Sean McCormack issued a statement calling on Beijing to reassess the 1989 crackdown.—AFP
