The Times of Malta is currently running the foreign news section with an editorial against the US intervention in Venezuela and they are running stories with “experts” stating their opinion on the matter. In this context, Times of Malta also asked “experts” about Malta’s relationship with the US and most of these opinions happened to be taken from a script by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: China has been very vocal in stating that the US intervention in Venezuela goes contrary to international law.
Supposedly, according to these experts, given that the US is violating international law, we should develop relations with China – also this is news that China has suddenly become a proponent of the international rules-based-order. This kind of naivety however is rather fake and very disingenuous. You can see below the points provided by a professor at the University of Malta (Anna Khakee) which directly correspond to China’s positions. Anna Khakee says that China should be brought onto the table that decides the international-rules-based-order, that the West should drop its demands against China’s human rights violations and that Malta should be used as a platform to enable China a better relationship with the West. Here below you can see her comments. Then further below you can see linked the corresponding statements by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs which are exactly the same.
China is conducting an active belligerent policy against Taiwan and the Philippines.
Notably also interviewed was Evarist Bartolo, a Beijing pip-squeak.
1. Chinese Foreign Ministry Rebukes UK for “Gross Interference”
Source: MFA via Xinhua, 29 Feb 2024.
After a British government statement on Hong Kong, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said:
“The statement of the U.K. is a gross interference in China’s internal affairs and Hong Kong affairs … China firmly opposes it.” She added that the UK’s concerns have no ground, urged the UK to “stop interfering in Hong Kong affairs,” face facts about Hong Kong’s return to China, and “end double standards.”
1. China urges the EU to stop interfering under the pretext of human rights (Dec 11, 2025.
Source: MFA via Xinhua, 11 Dec 2025.
At a press briefing on 11 December 2025, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun responded to a human-rights statement issued by the EU Delegation in China on International Human Rights Day.
Guo said that the EU’s statement “willfully ignores facts, distorts right and wrong, and is filled with malicious slander … constituting gross interference in China’s internal affairs and judicial sovereignty”. He added that China “strongly condemns and firmly opposes this statement” and has lodged formal diplomatic representations with the EU.
3. China calls on the UK to uphold the multipolar world-order
Source: China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi via Reuters, April 22 2025.
“China and Britain had a responsibility to uphold international order… China is ready to work with Britain to ‘eliminate all distractions’ and protect multilateralism.” – Wang Yi.
4. China uses Malta to strengthen ties with the West
Source: Liu Jianchao via Socialist China 14 July 2025.
Calling Malta “a bridge between China and Europe”, Liu Jianchao of the CPC International Department, expressed hope that” Malta will continue to play a constructive role in the European Union and promote the healthy and stable development of China-EU relations.”
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