The envoy said Chinese officials had pressured citizens not to attend 61 public events organised by the US embassy since November.
BEIJING - The US ambassador to China has accused Beijing of making it “impossible” to boost ties between ordinary Chinese and Americans in a strongly worded interview published in the Wall Street Journal on June 25.
Ambassador Nicholas Burns told the Journal that Beijing was trying to scupper engagement between Chinese and American citizens, intimidating Chinese participants in embassy events and fuelling anti-American fervour online. He said Chinese officials had pressured citizens not to attend 61 public events organised by the embassy since November, and tried to intimidate those who did, including with late-night interrogations at their homes.
“It happens every day on all the networks available to the government here, and there’s a high degree of anti-Americanism online,” Mr Burns said.Beijing often complains that Washington curbs the movements of its US-based diplomats and harshly interrogates or deports some Chinese holders of valid US visas.
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