Logic in Telegraph commentary not 'sound'

LONDON - The Chinese embassy in the UK on Saturday dismissed a Daily Telegraph commentary, which claimed China's recent railway accident signals that its economy may also derail, as using unsound logic and added that China will learn from the disaster.

In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, Chinese embassy spokesperson Dai Qingli wrote: "If his line of argument was sound, then shall we conclude that, heaven forbid, any crash of a Boeing or Airbus jet should be seen as a harbinger of the decline of America or Europe?"

The 530-word letter was posted on the paper's website and a condensed version was published in the paper.