Sci-tech exchange and cooperation between China and Canada are mutually beneficial: spokesperson

(ECNS)-- The Canadian government has gone after some universities and research institutions of China under the pretext of so-called national security risks, which seriously undermines sci-tech exchange and cooperation between China and Canada and is not conducive to improving and stabilizing the bilateral relations, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday. 

Mao made the remarks at a regular press conference while addressing a question about Canada who unveiled on Tuesday restrictions on research funding citing national security concerns.

Canada said it wants to prevent the sharing of advanced technologies with the entities of some countries, including China. 

China strongly deplores and firmly opposes the Canadian government's decision, Mao added.

Sci-tech exchange and cooperation between China and Canada are two-way and mutually beneficial. The relevant policy of Canada is short-sighted and unwise and hurts others as well as itself, Mao said.

She urged Canada to abandon ideological bias and Cold War mentality, stop overstretching the concept of national security, stop politicizing sci-tech cooperation issues and using them as a tool, stop setting up barriers hindering normal sci-tech exchange and cooperation between China and Canada, and create conditions and atmosphere for the improvement and growth of bilateral relations, instead of doing the opposite.