[The spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce responded to reporters’ questions on the release of the so-called scientific research safety review results by the U.S. Department of Defense] On October 23, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce responded to reporters’ questions on the so-called scientific research safety review results released by the U.S. Department of Defense. A reporter asked: On October 19, Eastern Time, the U.S. Department of Defense announced the results of a scientific research security review of some American universities, mentioning that the relevant universities had completely terminated their cooperative relationships with entities on the 1286 list. The 1286 list entities include many Chinese scientific research institutions. What is the Ministry of Commerce’s comment on this?  A: We have noticed the relevant situation. China has always opposed the United States' generalization of the concept of national security, politicizing, weaponizing, and tooling exchanges and cooperation in the field of scientific research, and making unreasonable "stigmatizing" accusations against Chinese scientific research institutions. The relevant actions of the United States are essentially coercing American scientific research institutions to "choose sides" and deliberately undermining normal scientific research cooperation between China and the United States. This will only weaken the United States' own scientific and technological progress and innovative development, and shoot itself in the foot. Strengthening scientific research cooperation between China and the United States is in the common interests of both sides, and imposing restrictions and "decoupling" will only harm others and ourselves. China urges the United States to respect the facts, comply with the universal laws of global scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation and the trend of the times, and immediately stop the wrong practice of taking discriminatory and restrictive measures against Chinese scientific research institutions. China will take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese scientific research institutions.