China Says US Officers Have “Misplaced Their Minds”

Beijing:

US officers have “misplaced their minds and gone mad” of their dealings with Beijing, China’s overseas ministry stated Friday, within the newest verbal salvo between the 2 superpowers.

Tensions between Washington and Beijing have run excessive this yr and among the most outspoken critics of China in American congress had been this week hit with sanctions, days after the US imposed visa bans and asset freezes on a number of Chinese language officers.

US Legal professional Normal Invoice Barr added gas to the hearth on Thursday when he accused Beijing of mounting an “financial blitzkrieg” to switch Washington because the world’s pre-eminent energy and unfold its political ideology world wide.

However overseas ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying stated Barr and different American officers had been criticising China to distract from home political issues.

“These folks, for self-interest and political acquire, don’t hesitate to hijack home public opinion… to the purpose the place they’ve misplaced their minds and gone mad,” she stated.

Hua added that China had no intention of difficult or changing the US and stated she hoped that Washington might “return to rationality” in its China coverage.

“A sparrow can not perceive the ambition of a swan,” she stated.

“It is a critical misjudgement and misunderstanding of China’s strategic intent.”

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