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'Doomsday madness': Foreign Ministry slams Pompeo's anti-China tweets
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, U.S., January 12, 2021. /Reuters

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, U.S., January 12, 2021. /Reuters

Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday slammed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's anti-China tweets, saying "the top U.S. diplomat, who prides himself on lying, cheating and stealing, has once again shown the world what the doomsday madness of sticking to the lying diplomacy to the end is."

A long-term anti-China hawk in the Trump administration, Pompeo tweeted around 30 anti-China posts during the weekend, including attacks on the Communist Party of China (CPC), Chinese media entities, policies concerning the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, the South China Sea, and China's response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

"For the political virus and lies that Pompeo keeps concocting and spreading, China has repeatedly exposed them one by one with facts, and his anti-China performance has no market," Hua said. 

"Pompeo's lying diplomacy has not only made his personal credibility completely bankrupt, but also caused irreparable damage to the national image and national interests of the U.S. I believe history will make a fair trial for him," she added. 

A report by the Washington Post on Saturday said Pompeo's last-minute actions on foreign policy will complicate Biden's plans for a new direction. 

Pompeo has made near-daily announcements of major foreign policy actions, "many of which appear designed to cement Trump priorities and create roadblocks to new directions charted by the incoming Biden team," it said. 

"When defeated armies are retreating, they always lay mines behind them if they have time. The mines slow pursuit, they may inflict casualties on the victors, and they give the losers something purposeful to do amid panic and despair. That's what Mike Pompeo has been doing just before time is called on his ideologically driven term as United States Secretary of State," a report by Bangkok Post said on Sunday. 

"I think the world knows clearly the true intentions of his doomsday madness, and what kind of results it produces," Hua added. 

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