China on Thursday asked a German official who claimed China is one of the main countries conducting spying activities in Germany to "stop blemishing its image."
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao said China was strongly dissatisfied with certain German official's "irresponsible criticism."
Liu said China had already lodged serious representations to Germany and demanded certain officials to "stop bad practices that blemished China's image over and over again, stop undermining China-Germany relations and hurting the emotions of the two peoples."
Liu said since the beginning of this year, certain German officials had made up "groundless accusations" against the Chinese government and the Chinese in Germany, adding that it is not for the first or the second time that German officials have raised such groundless accusations.
"Such accusations also drew indignation from the Chinese people," Liu added.
