CHINA has labelled comments by top diplomats of the Group of 7 industrialised nations as being “filled with arrogance, prejudice and malicious intentions.”

The comments by the Chinese on Saturday were in response to a G7 statement a day earlier that accused China of “illicit, provocative, coercive and dangerous actions that seek unilaterally to alter the status quo in such a way as to risk undermining the stability of regions, including through land reclamations, and building of outposts, as well as their use for military purposes.”

In the response, issued through its embassy in Canada, where the two-day G7 meeting was held in La Malbaie, Quebec, China said that the statement “repeated the same old rhetoric, ignored facts and China’s solemn position, grossly interfered in China’s internal affairs and blatantly smeared China.”