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But China's Commerce Ministry rebuffed this as "groundless with no factual basis".

“Any claim that the city desires to financially harm DuPont is groundless and simply not true,” said Friedman.

The West Coast felt much too exposed, and its Japanese population, native-born, naturalized, or immigrants, were automatically and groundlessly assumed to put Japan first in their loyalties, even spying or committing sabotage on its behalf.

The Russian government told the BBC in a statement that the allegations it uses prisoners' families as leverage are "groundless," and Russia treats "Ukrainian combatants humanely and in full compliance with the Geneva Convention."

At the least, it should end the groundless talk of mass “exodus.”