Pompeo's remarks baseless, distort facts, Xinhua says

Xinhua News Agency has published a 20,000-word article rebuking US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech delivered at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California a month ago, saying it negated every aspect of China-US relations and misrepresented history and reality.

Refuting Pompeo's remark that US "blind engagement" with China has failed, Xinhua said "US engagement with China is deliberate rather than blind, and serves the national interests of the United States".

Pompeo's assertion that the policy has failed is a rehash of the Cold War mentality, and the "distrust and verify" approach he advocated abounds with a Cold War mentality, ideological bias, condescending and bullying attitudes, and ignorance toward China, the article said.