Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson/MFA PRC

China will resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotage activities by anti-China forces outside China and defend national sovereignty, security and development interest, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Monday.

Lin made the remarks at a regular press conference in response to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal that Western countries believe that China is conducting espionage activities on an "unprecedented scale" to undermine rival states and bolster the country's economy and that Western spy agencies are unable to contain Beijing's activity.

"I don't know what factual basis this report has. For some time, a very few Western media outlets have been peddling disinformation on so-called espionage activities by China, but they presented no facts or evidence apart from some assumptions and speculations. Yet, I noted that the CIA recently posted on social media instructions in Chinese on how to contact it online, in an attempt to lure Chinese personnel to be their informant. This seriously infringes on China's national interest. China strongly protests this." Lin said.

Lin added that the CIA has long been using all kinds of despicable methods to steal other countries' secrets, interfere in their internal affairs and commit subversion. The US has never stopped its espionage activities against China. It has also long been conducting massive surveillance and secret theft against its allies. The US on the one hand blatantly carries out spying activities worldwide, yet on the other makes unwarranted accusation of spying threat against other countries. This is a clear misrepresentation of the facts.?

Lin noted that the US needs to immediately correct its wrongdoing, stop its tricks of framing others, and stop creating more chaos and turbulence in the world. (By Ma Ziqian/China Youth Daily)