China opposes politicizing trade and tech issues

China consistently opposes overstretching the concept of national security or politicizing trade and technological issues, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Tuesday.

Mao made the remarks after the United States Commerce department bureaus reportedly informed staffers in recent weeks that Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek is banned on government devices.

Mao emphasized that China will firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of its enterprises.