Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin savaged U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s behavior at the U.S.-India 2+2 meeting during the ministry’s regular press briefing yesterday. After listing Pompeo’s lies about China, Wang said that “What he wants essentially is for China to regress to poverty and backwardness, and for the world to backslide into the abyss of confrontation and division. This, more than anything else, poses the greatest threat to the world today.”
“Unfortunately for Pompeo, he was not born into the right era,” Wang continued. “Today, the trend for peace, development and win-win cooperation is invincible. Poverty and backwardness is no longer the synonym for any country, nor is development and strength the exclusive prerogative of any country. Pompeo’s malign lies and smears can neither erase the fact that China is committed to peaceful development and win-win cooperation nor stop the momentum of the Chinese people’s pursuit of national rejuvenation. China is an opportunity, not a threat, a partner, not a rival.”
