China raps new US House committee

China lashed out at a new US House committee dedicated to countering Beijing, demanding its members “discard their ideological bias and zero-sum Cold War mentality.”

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party must “view China and China-US relations in an objective and rational light,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a daily briefing.

“We demand the relevant US institutions and individuals discard their ideological bias and zero-sum Cold War mentality,” she said.

They must “stop framing China as a threat by quoting disinformation, stop denigrating the Communist Party of China and stop trying to score political points at the expense of China-US relations.”