BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying on Monday called the US Secretary of State and anti-China hawk Mike Pompeo “Mr. Liar,” snubbing claims made in a US Department of State document that suggest the novel coronavirus emerged from a Chinese lab and had a military background.
“The statement and the list are full of conspiracies and lies, which are consistent with certain US officials who have dealt with the pandemic in a passive way and constantly shifted the blame to others. The list is another US-made list of lies,” Hua told a press conference on Monday.
Pompeo, a long-time anti-China hawk in the Trump administration, tweeted at least 30 anti-China posts during the past weekend, including all kinds of verbal attacks on China’s political system, Chinese media, China’s response to COVID-19 and other China-related topics such as Xinjiang, Hong Kong and the South China Sea. Such concentrated attacks have been painted as a vivid display of his final hysteria by Chinese observers and many netizens.
This also fully showed that some US politicians ignored public safety and lives, go against science and are obsessed with making propaganda about conspiracies and spreading “the political virus,” Hua noted. “This is also the final madness staged by Pompeo, this Mr. Liar,” she said. Hua also said that the so-called document about China interfering with the investigation on the origin of the coronavirus is not in line with facts, and the country has taken the most comprehensive, thorough and strictest measures in curbing the epidemic, winning time for the globe to fight this battle. China has also been actively communicating with the WHO on tracing the origin of the virus since the beginning, and invited WHO experts in February and July in 2020 to come to China to study its origins, Hua added.
– The Daily Mail-Global Times News exchange item
