Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian is pictured at a media briefing in Beijing, on April 8. Greg Baker/AFP/Getty ImagesChina's Foreign Ministry has accused US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of “making up all sorts of fake news” to smear China and damage the country's international relations. For some time Pompeo kept making up all sorts of fake news to attack and smear China and try to poison relations between China and other countries,” foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Thursday. Zhao’s comments come after Pompeo said on Wednesday that “Beijing claimed for months that it reported the outbreak of the virus to the WHO. Now we know that’s not true, too.”US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington on July 8.

Source: CNN July 09, 2020 10:21 UTC