China says it plays a constructive role in seeking to resolve the Darfur conflict, where more than 200,000 people have died since 2003, when local rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government.
China last year began deploying 315 non-combat troops to Darfur to prepare for a proposed 26,000-member African Union-U.N. peacekeeping force that has been delayed in part by the Sudanese president's insistence that participating troops be predominantly African.
''The international community knows very well that the Chinese government has played a positive and constructive role,'' Jiang said. ''Some organizations are trying to make some sensations. This is to undermine the preparation work of the Olympics and we are firmly against that.''
While China routinely vilifies the Dalai Lama, a recent interview with British broadcaster ITV News in which he reportedly gave his blessing for protests at the Olympics put him in the focus again.
According to a transcript circulated by pro-Tibetan groups, the 72-year-old Nobel Peace laureate said protests could remind the Chinese public of government policies he says are eroding the region's traditional Buddhist culture.
The Dalai Lama said Chinese repression in Tibet had gotten ''certainly worse'' since China was awarded the Olympics in 2001.
''The goal of all of his schemes is to split the motherland, sabotage ethnic unity, sabotage China's relations with other nations and interfere with the Olympic Games,'' Jiang said.
''So he is in no way a religious or spiritual leader. He is purely a general leader bent on pursuing separatism and sabotaging national unity,'' she said.
China has also been angered by a series of overseas visits by the Dalai Lama, who leads an India-based exile government. Beijing's relations with Germany were strained for months after Chancellor Angela Merkel received the Dalai Lama in September.