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A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Wednesday lambasted Britain and Canada for imposing restrictions on Xinjiang imports, urging them to immediately rectify their wrong decisions and stop interfering in China's internal affairs.

Most people who have tasted a Piyaman pomegranate from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China, might comment on its sweetness. To achieve the fruit's sweetness, local farmers changed every single rule that they had stuck to for generations.

China firmly opposed the US ban and said the untenable "lie of the century" was made by the US and some Western countries to restrict and suppress Chinese companies and to contain China, Zhao said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has encouraged Howard Schultz, Starbucks Corporation's chairman emeritus, and the company to continue to play a positive role in advancing China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation and bilateral ties.

A few days before the New Year, senior leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) sat down in the Zhongnanhai leadership compound for an annual criticism and self-criticism session.