(27 Dec 2024) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing - 27 December 2024 1. Wide of news conference 2. Wide of reporters 3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson: “Taiwan independence is a dead end, and the U.S. arming Taiwan to seek independence will only backfire and lead to self-destruction. The relevant U.S. bill's China-related provisions are filled with Cold War zero-sum thinking and ideological bias, ignoring facts, hyping the China threat, and