© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Chinese container ship “Cosco Shipping Aries” is unloaded at a loading terminal in the port of Hamburg Germany July 27, 2018. Picture taken July 27,2018. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo
BEIJING (Reuters) – The U.S has “no right to interfere” in Chinese cooperation with Germany, the foreign ministry said Thursday, after Washington “strongly suggested” that Beijing would not get a controlling stake in a contested deal regarding Hamburg’s port terminal.
The U.S. interference is symptomatic of its practice of coercive diplomacy, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters at a daily briefing in Beijing.
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