Foreign Ministry strongly protests Swedish TV show that insulted China

The Foreign Ministry strongly protested on Monday a recent Swedish TV show insulting China in its news program, demanding Swedish Television SVT take immediate actions to eliminate the bad effects.

The anchor of the SVT show maliciously used very vulgar language against China and the Chinese people, which has incited discrimination, bias and provocation against China and other ethnic groups, and is a clear breach of journalistic ethics, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Geng Shuang said on Monday.

The program, produced by Swedish Television SVT and aired on Friday, cast China in a negative light following a recent incident regarding Swedish police officers' mistreatment of Chinese tourists.

Program host Jesper Ronndahl made comments that amount to a gross insult to and a vicious attack on China and the Chinese people.

China strongly condemned the malicious act, and the Foreign Ministry and Chinese Embassy in Sweden lodged a complaint and strong protest to the Swedish side, Geng said.

China reserves the right to take further actions on the issue, he added.

The Chinese embassy in Sweden said on Saturday the SVT program and Ronndahl spread and advocated racism and xenophobia outright, and openly provoked and instigated racial hatred and confrontation targeting China and some other ethnic groups.

The program also referred to a wrong map of China where China's Taiwan province and some parts of the Tibet region were missing, which severely infringes on China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, the embassy added.

The program breaks the basic moral principles of mankind, and gravely challenges human conscience, and is a serious violation of media professional ethics, the embassy said.