U.S. crackdown on China reaches out to diplomats from both countries around the world

　The U.S.’s claws of suppressing China have spread to the world. Diplomats from the two countries have frequently launched diplomatic forces this year

　　[Global Times reporter Shan Jie, Global Times correspondent Ding Xuezhen in Pakistan] In the closing of the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, the United States blatantly demonstrated its Cold War and hostile thinking. In fact, the United States’ deliberately suppressing China’s claws have reached the world. Since this year, US embassies and diplomats around the world have used topics such as the new crown virus and 5G to discredit China and undermine the friendly relations between China and other countries. This has also caused Chinese diplomats to often face unprovoked accusations and interference from their American colleagues, and their "interaction" with American diplomats has therefore become particularly frequent.

　　As an important city in Central and Eastern Europe, Poland has always been the political position the United States wants to fight for. "Global Times" reporter learned through interviews with the Chinese Embassy in Poland that since March this year, the US Ambassador to Poland Mosbach has been interviewed, posted on the Polish media and Twitter, disseminating all kinds of false China-related information about the epidemic— -Denigrating China's efforts and effectiveness in fighting the epidemic, falsely claiming that China is covering up the epidemic, leading to a global pandemic, and boasting that the US government is actively engaged in international cooperation in public health. For this reason, the Chinese Embassy in Poland and the United States have engaged in several rounds of games.

　　On March 23, the U.S. ambassador posted an article slandering China on the epidemic on one of Poland's largest portal websites, "ONET", and then used Twitter to spread it further. The Chinese ambassador to Poland Liu Guangyuan published a signed article on the same website the next day, entitled "The United States distorts the facts and fails to fight the epidemic", and also tweeted it with @美ambassador. Since then, every time the U.S. ambassador provoked, the Chinese side quickly responded. According to statistics, since the launch of Twitter in March, Ambassador Liu Guangyuan has posted nearly 300 tweets.

　　The incident has aroused widespread concern in Poland and prompted the Polish media to be more cautious in reporting on China. A Polish scholar wrote on the US "Diplomats" website that Poland has a tradition of presiding over ambassadorial talks. As early as 1958, the Chinese and American ambassadors to Poland held talks in Warsaw. Now, Poland is once again a place of dialogue between two superpowers with obvious differences, only this time on Twitter and the Polish media.

　　The latest round of confrontation is about 5G. On July 7, Mosbach tweeted an article by an official from the US State Department, saying that Chinese 5G companies were "untrustworthy", and then successively posted tweets, slandering Chinese companies being used by the Chinese government for surveillance. The Chinese ambassador issued 17 tweets denouncing the U.S. abuse of state power to suppress Chinese companies without evidence, and published signed articles in the Polish media.

　　Similar confrontations also exist in other regions. In May of this year, the US Chief and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Wells delivered a speech to discredit the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. The Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing responded that “Ms. Wells is ignorant and simple, and the facts and data cited by the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor are full of loopholes.”

　　In November last year, on the eve of the fifth media forum of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Wells "warned" Pakistan that the project was not aid, but only beneficial to China. Yao Jing publicly introduced the progress of the corridor construction on the forum with accurate and objective data. "I had at least two face-to-face conversations with Ms. Wells in Pakistan, and briefed her on the corridor situation, but it seems that she did not listen carefully and complained about'opacity'." Ambassador Yao Jing said.

　　American diplomats' acts of smearing and slandering China overseas have become more frequent and explicit. In April this year, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands Huxtra made false claims in the Dutch media that China’s response to the epidemic was opaque and incomplete, causing the United States to misjudge the situation. The Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands quickly retorted that “the ambassador’s views are baseless and the logic is extremely ridiculous”.

　　The recent confrontation between the Chinese and American embassies in Myanmar has also aroused great attention. On July 18, the US embassy in Myanmar developed a temporary representative office to attack and discredit China and deliberately provoke Sino-Myanmar relations. Then the spokesperson of the Chinese embassy in Myanmar Make a speech to expose and criticize the selfish, hypocritical, and ugly face of the United States. A week later, the Chinese Embassy in the Kingdom of Belgium published the speech of the embassy spokesperson on its website to refute the US allegations and hype the so-called "Chinese hacker" issue. In many cases, the provocations of American diplomats cannot even stand the people of the countries where they are stationed. The US ambassador to Iceland recently reposted the US President’s remarks on social media, calling the new crown virus a "Chinese virus." This behavior of spreading racist comments has aroused widespread criticism in Iceland.

　　"The United States now implements a'whole-government' policy toward China, demonizing and marginalizing China in key areas and key issues on a global scale." Li Haidong, a professor at the China Foreign Affairs University, told the Global Times reporter. The obvious attempt by the Chinese government is to draw "China" into American politics and add points to the election of Trump and the Republican Party. Operations such as closing the consulate-general are the first time since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.