Pompeo uses Taiwan 'for personal political gain'

The visit to China's Taiwan region by former United States secretary of state Mike Pompeo this week, his second trip to the island this year, was for personal political gain, spokespersons said.

Pompeo arrived in Taiwan on Monday night following an earlier trip in March. He attended a business forum in Kaohsiung on Tuesday and claimed the island is "an independent country" while giving a speech.

Zhu Fenglian, the spokeswoman for the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, said at a news conference in Beijing on Wednesday, that "everyone knows what kind of person Pompeo is".