China urges the United States to ensure that Chinese citizens enjoy fair entry treatment (representativeness)
Beijing:
China’s public security minister urged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to stop what it calls “harassment” of Chinese students entering the United States during a meeting with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary in Vienna, state media in Beijing reported on Monday.
In the outcome of Sunday’s talks between Wang Xiaohong and Alejandro Mayorkas, Beijing urged Washington to “stop harassing and censoring Chinese students for no reason,” according to state news agency Xinhua.
Beijing has repeatedly claimed that Chinese citizens with valid travel documents are harshly interrogated and deported at U.S. airports, and its embassy in Washington last month urged Chinese tourists to avoid the capital’s Dulles airport.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Wang Yi urged the United States to “ensure fair entry treatment and full dignity for Chinese citizens” when meeting Mayorkas.
Wang also urged Mayorkas to “correct” the U.S. decision to include China on a list of major drug transit or production countries.
U.S. officials have long accused China of being involved in the trade in fentanyl, which is many times more powerful than heroin and responsible for more than 70,000 overdose deaths in the United States each year.
In Beijing last month, U.S. and Chinese officials agreed to cooperate to curb the production of raw materials for fentanyl, known as a precursor chemical.
U.S. reports of Sunday’s talks said Wang and Mayorkas “had a candid and constructive discussion about steps needed to curb the spread of precursor chemicals.”
“The two sides also made commitments on continued law enforcement cooperation, bilateral exchanges of technology between scientists and other experts, control of precursor chemicals, and further multilateral cooperation,” the statement said.
Washington and Beijing also discussed expanding cooperation to “protect children from online child sexual exploitation and abuse,” the statement added.
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