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‘Mike Pompeo was the best ever’: China’s Wolf Warriors are tweeting again

  • US secretary of state has destroyed America’s image and made China greater, according to Li Yang, Chinese consul general in Rio de Janeiro
  • Li has spent the start of the year tweeting about American and British failures

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has criticised China’s Communist Party over Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and its initial handling of Covid-19. Photo: Reuters
Kristin Huang
A Chinese diplomat in Brazil has mocked Mike Pompeo on Twitter, calling him the best US secretary of state ever, as he prepares to leave office.
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“You made great contributions in dividing US people and uniting Chinese people, destroying US image and making China greater!” Li Yang, the Chinese consul general in Rio de Janeiro, tweeted on Tuesday, adding that he hated to say goodbye to him.

Zhao Lijian, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman and an outspoken Wolf Warrior diplomat, liked the tweet.
Li, who has 1,900 followers, has begun the year with a barrage of tweets attacking the United States and occasionally Britain, including gloating about the failures of both nations’ coronavirus containment efforts.

Two days before his Pompeo tweet, he wrote of US President Donald Trump: “Donald, look at your graduation results: trade war: failed; economy recovery, failed; fighting against coronavirus: failed; re-election campaign: failed; MAGA: question mark!”

Joe Biden will replace Trump when he is inaugurated as the 46th president of the US on Wednesday.

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Li’s tweets continued the harder line adopted by Chinese diplomats towards the US with ties between the nations at their lowest point in decades, for which they have been described as Wolf Warriors.

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