Australia, Britain and the United States will pay the price for their “mistaken acts”, after deciding not to send government delegations to February’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday.

"The United States, Britain and Australia have used the Olympics platform for political manipulation, so they will have to pay the price for their mistaken acts," Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson at the Chinese foreign ministry told reporters today, according to Reuters.

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Inas Abdulkareem

BEIJING, Dec. 5 (ST) - China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday released a report on its website titled "The State of Democracy in the United States."

Based on facts and expert opinions, the report aims to expose the deficiencies and abuse of democracy in the United States as well as the harm of its exporting such democracy. It is hoped that the United States will improve its own system and practices of democracy and change its way of interacting with other countries, the report said.

Washington and its allies are introducing outright confrontational schemes in the Asia-Pacific region to contain other countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with participants in the ‘Dialogue in the Name of the Future’ annual scientific-educational program of the Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund on Tuesday.

"In the Asia-Pacific region where positive, constructive and unifying tendencies and trends towards consensus-building and compromise prevailed until recently, some countries are introducing outright confrontational schemes to deter other countries," Russia’s top diplomat stressed.