China on Thursday condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s accusation that it is helping orchestrate a “political blockade” against Israel, saying Thursday the charge has “no basis in fact.”

“China is shocked by the remarks of the Israeli leader,” the Chinese embassy in Israel said in an English-language statement posted to its website. “The claim is groundless, undermines China-Israel relations, and is something that China is deeply concerned about and firmly opposed to.”

Speaking to a large delegation of US officials earlier this week, Netanyahu accused China and Qatar of “organizing an attack on Israel… [through] the social media of the Western world and the United States.”

He later said to Israeli channel i24News, “There is now an attempt to impose a blockade on Israel by various entities and countries, led by Qatar. First of all, a media blockade funded with enormous sums of money, both from Qatar and from other countries such as China.”

The embassy criticized those remarks in its statement, saying it was Israeli........

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