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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.

Beijing has hit back once again at Western media's repeated allegations of forced labor in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.