(18 Dec 2024) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing - 18 December 2024 1. Wide of briefing 2. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lin Jian, spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation is mutually beneficial and win-win, and it benefits the people of both countries. The practice of overstretching the concept of national security and artificially setting up obstacles to normal economic and trade exchanges out of political purposes violates the principles of