Pompeo and his brazen China lies, a dire threat to global stability

US 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 US 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.

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 US 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 US administration was scrambling to make China a scapegoat for US failure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic at home. As the top US 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 US 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 US 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 US-China relations, Pompeo is placing his political ambitions and ideological prejudices above US national interests, as well as global peace and stability.

Unlike most of his predecessors, who viewed constructive US-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 US 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."

With his absurd and overheated rhetoric against China's diplomatic and consular missions in the United States, Pompeo is apparently paving the way for further deteriorating diplomatic ties with China.

History has shown that a constructive China-US 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 US secretary of state ever is not going to change.