By Harvey Dzodin | CGTN | Updated: 2020-12-28 09:26 Share CLOSE Students from China celebrate graduation after the Columbia University Commencement ceremony in New York, the US, May 22, 2019. [Photo: Xinhua]
Mike Pompeo recently continued his anti-China campaign by unilaterally canceling five valuable Sino-US cultural exchange programs.
It s no surprise that one of the most ethically-challenged members of the US administration continues to resort to falsehoods and half-truths in attempting to demonize China until his last day in office.
Pompeo s press release, replete with grammatical and factual errors, refers to the programs as merely masquerading as cultural exchanges when, in his view, they are fully funded and operated by the PRC government as soft power propaganda tools.
U.S to end five China-funded exchange programs
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
AKIPRESS.COM - The U.S. State Department is terminating five Chinese-funded exchange programs with the United States, calling them propaganda tools for Beijing, The Straits Times reported.
The Department said on its website that the programs are the Policymakers Educational China Trip Program, the US-China Friendship Program, the US-China Leadership Exchange Program, the US-China Transpacific Exchange Program and the Hong Kong Educational and Cultural Program.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said these programs - conducted under a US law called the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act (MECEA) that permits American government employees to travel using foreign government funds - were disguised as cultural exchanges.