BEIJING, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang summoned U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad on Friday and lodged solemn representations and protests against the U.S. side's sanctions on Chinese military agency and official pursuant to its domestic law.
The U.S. State Department announced Thursday that it would impose sanctions on the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission of China and the department's director, alleging that China had violated the "Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act."
Zheng pointed out that the United States' action on the ground of military cooperation between China and Russia severely violated basic norms governing the international relations, and that such mean behavior is a blatant hegemonic act.
"The China-Russia military cooperation is normal cooperation between two sovereign states, and the U.S. side has no right to interfere," Zheng said.
He added that the U.S. side's act has severely harmed the state-to-state and mil-to-mil relations and affected the cooperation in international and regional affairs between China and the United States.
"The Chinese side will take every necessary measure to firmly safeguard its national interests. We strongly urge the U.S. side to correct its mistake immediately and withdraw the so-called sanctions," he said. "Otherwise, the U.S. side will have to bear all the consequences."
