Lin was born into a military family in
Wuhan,
Hubei, in May 1977. Lin attended
Wuhan Foreign Languages School for high school and graduated in 1995. He went on for undergraduate education and graduated from
Beijing Foreign Studies University with a major in English in 1999. After graduation, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1999 and was selected to study abroad in
Denmark. He was later assigned to the Political Office at the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Kingdom of Denmark. From 2020 to 2024, he was dispatched to serve as party secretary and director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
Cyber attack accusations In March 2024, Lin accused the United Kingdom and the United States of "political manipulation" after both of these countries blamed a Chinese state-run cyber unit over an alleged cyber attack on Britain's electoral commission and
Members of Parliament. He further added that both the US and the UK should "stop politicising cyber security issues".
South China Sea During a visit of US Secretary of State
Antony Blinken to
Manila in March 2024, Lin told the US of having no rights to interfere between China and the
Philippines' issues on the
South China Sea. He urged the Philippines to "stop bringing external forces to safeguard its so-called security" on disputed waters adding that such showcasing of external forces shall provoke confrontations and aggravate tensions. In May 2024, he expressed China's concerns over the deployment of a US-launched missile system being transported to the northern region of the Philippines. Responding to Filipino Defense Secretary
Gilbert Teodoro's comments of China's "ramping up pressure" to the Philippines in November 2024, he claimed that the territorial dispute will not escalate if the Philippines no longer "infringes and provokes".
US tariffs After the
Biden administration announced new
tariffs and additional
import taxes on Chinese electric vehicles and goods, Lin commented that: "Instead of ending those wrong practices, the US continues to politicize trade issues, abuse the so-called review process of Section 301 tariffs and plan tariff hikes". == References ==