Ambassador: 'It's UK that has changed'

Liu Xiaoming stresses mutual respect, and urges London to see 'real Xinjiang'

The United Kingdom should take full responsibility for current difficulties in the China-UK relationship, Beijing's top diplomat in London said in an online news conference on Thursday.

Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the UK, condemned what he described as the UK's "blatant interference" in China's affairs recently, particularly relating to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region.

He said the UK's interference in China's internal affairs had "seriously poisoned the atmosphere" of the bilateral relationship.