China rejected accusations from the US that Beijing has stepped up its efforts to steal technology and urged the White House to get economic relations “back on the right track” ahead of a meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping next week.

The US Trade Representative’s office released a report this week that said Beijing is continuing to hack American companies to loot intellectual property, allegations that have led the two countries to engage in a tit-for-tat war over millions of dollars in tariffs on each other’s goods.

“This is completely unacceptable to China,” China’s Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng told reporters in Beijing. “We hope the U.S. side will stop the words and deeds of destroying bilateral economic and trade relations.”

Trump and Xi are expected to meet at the G-20 economic summit next weekend in Buenos Aires.

Gao called on the US to “create favorable conditions” to get the countries’ economic relationship “back on the right track.”

The Trump administration has blamed China’s theft of technology and efforts to pressure companies to surrender their intellectual property as barriers to free trade between the two countries.

The US government proposed earlier this week stepping up scrutiny on technology imports – including artificial intelligence and microprocessor technology.

President Trump has already imposed penalties on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods to force China to make concessions on trade.

On Jan. 1, the tariff rate on $200 billion of Chinese imports will increase to 25 percent.

China retaliated by imposing tariffs on $60 billion worth of US products.

With Post wires