Australian anti-China think tank decried

China on Tuesday strongly criticized the Australian Strategic Policy Institute for fabricating and spreading lies about China, following the think tank's suspension of its anti-China "research" because of funding cuts from the United States.

An ASPI analyst recently posted on social media that the freezing of US aid had left the organization without sufficient anti-China materials, making it difficult to produce content attacking China while urging the US or other entities to immediately resume funding for its anti-China operations.

Speaking at a daily news briefing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the post was a self-exposure of the ASPI's own scandal, once again revealing its "hypocritical anti-China nature" of manufacturing lies and smearing China under US sponsorship.