Why you ask the same question again? Read my last post for your answer, I am not going to type again.
By the way, trained as a Lawyer, I was trained to read and analyse statement (usually witness statement) and that statement is dead right neutral, the reporter try to have him defame China, he wouldn't do that but at the same time, he wouldn't be associated with the whole thing as well (that is when he wash his hand on the issue by claiming that is solely a Chinese problem), that does not mean he is defending China, that only mean he want to stay neutral.