U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press briefing in Washington D.C., the United States, on March 5, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
- Pompeo's latest slanders against Chinese diplomats in the United States have once again proved that he is a self-serving instigator of confrontation and a career liar.
- By portraying China as the enemy of Americans, Pompeo, along with other corrupt U.S. politicians, is attempting to conceal the fact that they are the underlying reasons for the problems plaguing the country.
by Xinhua writer Lu Jiafei
BEIJING, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's latest slanders against Chinese diplomats in the United States have once again proved that he is a self-serving instigator of confrontation and a career liar.
By blatantly spreading lies to pit the U.S. public against China and stoke tensions between the two countries, Pompeo and his fellow China hawks in Washington have actually become a liability and are endangering global peace and stability.
For years, Pompeo has been notorious for "pushing conspiracy theories," as described by The New York Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman. His numerous lies have already bankrupted his credibility both at home and abroad.
His latest baseless accusations against China's Consulate General in New York came straight from the anti-China playbook of China-bashers in Washington, who for years have been deliberately and flagrantly stigmatizing China and fanning hatred against the Asian country for political gains.
Photo taken on Jan. 12, 2019 shows the White House and a stop sign in Washington D.C., the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
This is not the first time Pompeo made sensational and ill-founded charges against Chinese diplomats. Back in July, Pompeo and his State Department tried to justify Washington's abrupt order to close China's Consulate General in Houston by claiming that the naked political provocation was to protect "American intellectual property and American's private information" without presenting any concrete evidence.
Quoting U.S. Senator Angus King, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, CNN reported at the time that King was not aware of any "recent intelligence of particular Chinese activities, either with regard to our elections, or the whole confrontation between our two countries" that may have driven the decision.
Pompeo's latest accusations against China came as the U.S. administration was scrambling to make China a scapegoat for U.S. failure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic at home. As the top U.S. diplomat, Pompeo was widely criticized for seeking to undermine rather than galvanizing global unity in the anti-epidemic fight.
With his credentials as a qualified U.S. secretary of state questioned by many, Pompeo has recently intensified his rhetoric bombshells on China to divert public criticism.
By portraying China as the enemy of Americans, Pompeo, along with other corrupt U.S. politicians, is attempting to conceal the fact that they are the underlying reasons for the problems plaguing the country.
What is more, by constantly seeking a deterioration in U.S.-China relations, Pompeo is placing his political ambitions and ideological prejudices above U.S. national interests, as well as global peace and stability.
Photo taken on Dec. 28, 2018 shows the reflection of the Capitol Hill on an ambulance's door in Washington D.C., the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
Unlike most of his predecessors, who viewed constructive U.S.-China ties as crucial to both sides and the world as a whole, Pompeo has brazenly proved himself to be a disciple of a zero-sum strategy and Cold War mentality.
Apart from falsely claiming that the U.S. engagement with China has failed, he has pioneered concrete actions to sever ties with China, including political oppression targeting Chinese media, imposing restrictions on Chinese students in the United States, and tagging Confucius Institutes, which focus on people-to-people exchanges, as a "foreign mission."
Pompeo's latest slanders against Chinese diplomats in the United States have once again proved that he is a self-serving instigator of confrontation and a career liar
History has shown that a constructive China-U.S. relationship is a win-win for both sides and world prosperity, and neither can afford the costs of a full-blown confrontation.
Right now, Pompeo is on a tour to some European countries, and is expected to make up more lies about China. Yet whatever he has done or is going to do to smear China, his fate of being remembered as the worst U.S. secretary of state ever is not going to change. ■
