Beijing, China - Dec 24, 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of press briefing in progress, reporters
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Mao Ning, spokeswoman, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (starting with shot 1):
"The U.S. has insisted on signing the 'National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025' into law, which includes negative content related to China. Year after year, it peddles the so-called 'China threat' narrative, hypes up military support to the Taiwan region, abuses national power to stifle China's technological and economic development, restricts China-U.S. economic, trade and cultural exchanges, which harms China's sovereignty, security and development interests, and interferes with bilateral efforts to stabilize China-U.S. relations. We decry and rebuff this, and has lodged solemn representations with the U.S."
3. Reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Mao Ning, spokeswoman, Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
"China urges the U.S. to abandon the Cold War mentality and ideological bias, view China's development and China-U.S. relations objectively and rationally, earnestly adhere to the one-China principle and the three China-U.S. joint communiques, stop arming the Taiwan region, cease politicizing or weaponizing technology and trade issues, halt seeking excuses to ramp up military spending and maintain hegemony, and not to implement the negative clauses related to China in the act. China will take resolute measures to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests."
5. Various of reporters

China calls on the United States not to implement the negative content related to China in its newly-adopted "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025," said Mao Ning, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Tuesday.

Mao made the comments in response to a media query on the negative content of the act.

"The U.S. has insisted on signing the 'National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025' into law, which includes negative content related to China. Year after year, it peddles the so-called 'China threat' narrative, hypes up military support to the Taiwan region, abuses national power to stifle China's technological and economic development, restricts China-U.S. economic, trade and cultural exchanges, which harms China's sovereignty, security and development interests, and interferes with bilateral efforts to stabilize China-U.S. relations. We decry and rebuff this, and has lodged solemn representations with the U.S.," she said.

"China urges the U.S. to abandon the Cold War mentality and ideological bias, view China's development and China-U.S. relations objectively and rationally, earnestly adhere to the one-China principle and the three China-U.S. joint communiques, stop arming the Taiwan region, cease politicizing or weaponizing technology and trade issues, halt seeking excuses to ramp up military spending and maintain hegemony, and not to implement the negative clauses related to China in the act. China will take resolute measures to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests," said Mao.