Beijing calls on Washington to ‘stop fabricating and disseminating false information against other countries’.
Beijing has called on Washington to “stop fabricating and disseminating false information” in response to a report that the Pentagon ran a secret campaign during the Covid-19 pandemic to discredit China’s vaccines.
“The facts have proven time and again that the United States has consistently spread false information through the manipulation of social media, poisoned the public opinion environment and smeared the image of other countries. China firmly opposes this,” foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian told reporters in Beijing on Monday.
He said Washington should “set its mind right, shoulder its responsibilities as a great power, and stop fabricating and disseminating false information against other countries”.
Lin was responding to a media query about a Reuters investigation published on Friday that said the Pentagon had tried to discredit the quality of Chinese face masks, test kits and Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac’s vaccine.
