US Lawmaker Tells China: You Can’t Dictate America’s Foreign Policy on Nigeria
US lawmaker Riley Moore rebukes China for condemning Trump’s Nigeria comments, insisting Beijing has no right to influence America’s diplomacy.
Riley Moore, a member of the US House of Representatives, has said that China has no right to dictate America’s foreign policy.
Moore was reacting to China’s disapproval of Trump’s threat of military action in Nigeria as part of efforts to “protect Christians from persecution”.
Recall that on Wednesday, Mao Ning, spokesperson of the Chinese foreign ministry, said “as Nigeria’s comprehensive strategic partner, China firmly opposes any country using religion and human rights as an excuse to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs, and threatening other countries with sanctions and force”.
But Moore dismissed China’s stance in an X post, describing the Asian country as a communist autocracy. “President Trump is absolutely right to defend our brothers and sisters in Christ who are suffering horrific persecution, and even martyrdom, for their faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” Moore said.
“China will not dictate our foreign policy to us, and we will not be lectured to by a Communist autocracy that recently arrested 30 Christian pastors for their faith and threw ethnic minorities in concentration camps,” he added.
