U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent comment that “Taiwan has not been a part of China” has enraged Beijing, which hit back through Chinese state media.

Pompeo’s comment violated China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and offended Chinese people, said Zhang Wensheng, deputy director of the Taiwan Research Institute of Xiamen University, in an interview with Hong Kong China News Agency. Taiwan as a part of China is an undeniable historical fact, he stressed.

He predicted that Pompeo’s “madness” will lead to concrete contributions to the Taiwan-U.S. relationship, and thus harming Sino-U.S. ties.

A column on China Network Television called Pompeo a gambler who loses his mind as the bell is about to ring, acting without principle or bottom line.

It said Pompeo’s crazy behavior has revealed certain American politicians' malicious ambitions to stir chaos in the Taiwan strait, to secede and constrain China. “We are warning ‘bastards’ like Pompeo that they have misjudged the global trend and are born in the wrong times. China is no longer a field where foreign forces can do whatever they want.”

“No criticism could stop him from making controversial comments, especially with regard to China. The Secretary of State has few equals when it comes to anti-China rhetoric,” Md Enamul Hassan wrote in Global Times. The writer concluded that Pompeo was venting his anger at China out of frustration with Trump’s election loss.

“But the remarks of the current Secretary of State make no sense and will definitely not influence the policy toward China of the incoming administration led by President-elect Joe Biden. Pompeo’s Taiwan remarks, therefore, deserve only verbal reactions, not any real action,” he added.

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