US-China relations: Beijing slams State Department report ‘concocted by Cold War fossils’
- Document is ‘another anti-China lie’, foreign ministry says about report that outlines Beijing’s intent to ‘revise the world order around its own authoritarian goals’
- Report ‘fully exposes the deep-rooted Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice of some people in the US’, Beijing says
China has described a US report on how Washington should confront and contain Beijing as having been “concocted by Cold War fossils” who are destined to be “swept into the garbage dump of history”.
The comments by the foreign ministry came after the administration of outgoing US President Donald Trump released a 74-page framework document that also outlines what it says are China’s ambitions to displace the United States as the world’s superpower.
“The document is another anti-China lie concocted by Cold War fossils from the US State Department,” ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday.
“It fully exposes the deep-rooted Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice of some people in the US, and also exposes their fear, anxiety and unhealthy mentality about China’s continuous development,” he said.
“They are doomed to fail, and will eventually be swept into the garbage dump of history.”
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In the document, which was first reported on by Axios, the State Department’s policy planning office outlined the steps Washington should take in response to what it refers to as Beijing’s intent to revise the world order around its own authoritarian goals.