Chinese state-run media outlets are launching a counter-attack against US State Secretary Mike Pompeo’s comments made during the state secretary’s visit to South America last week, as noted by Reuters.
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“Pompeo was on a Latin America tour at the end of last week, meeting with the heads of state in Panama and Mexico. Pompeo told reporters during the trip that “when China comes calling it’s not always to the good of your citizens”.”
” “When they show up with deals that seem to be too good to be true it’s often the case that they, in fact, are,” he said on Thursday in Mexico City, according to comments posted on the U.S. State Department’s website.”
“In an editorial on Monday, the state-run China Daily newspaper said Pompeo’s comments were “ignorant and malicious” and criticism that its ambitions Belt and Road infrastructure initiative was creating debt traps in other countries was false.”
“China has been gaining ground in resource-rich Latin America, raising concerns in Washington that the world’s second largest economy is grabbing influence in the region amid a tense trade war between the two countries.”
“President Xi Jinping has been pushing the plan to expand trade corridors along a modern-day Silk Road linking Asia, Europe and Africa, pumping credit into building roads, railways and ports in a trillion-dollar infrastructure initiative.”
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