US urged to stay out of China's affairs

China on Wednesday urged the United States to stop misleading the public after US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a statement on taking a Chinese citizen via abnormal means into the US embassy in Beijing.

"What the US side should do now is stop misleading the public and making every excuse to shift responsibility and conceal its wrongdoing," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said in response to a question about Clinton's statement. "Nor should it interfere in the domestic affairs of China."

Chen Guangcheng, a native of Yinan county in eastern China's Shandong province, entered the US embassy in Beijing in late April and left of his own volition after a six-day stay, according to the spokesman.