"Pompeo has repeatedly fabricated lies about China and maliciously created political confrontation," the Chinese embassy in Japan said in a statement.
"We once again urge the US to abandon its Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice, stop unprovoked accusations and attacks against China and treat relations with China in a constructive manner," the embassy said.
Pompeo@@@s East Asia visit, his first in more than a year, coincides with worsening tensions with China.
The United States and China, the world@@@s top two economies, are at loggerheads over a wide range of issues from Beijing@@@s handling of the coronavirus to its imposition of a new security law in Hong Kong and ambitions in the South China Sea.
