China adheres to the path of peaceful development and opposes hegemony: FM spokesperson

(ECNS)--A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Thursday that both the Constitution of the People's Republic of China and the Constitution of the Communist Party of China explicitly stipulating that China adheres to the path of peaceful development and opposes hegemony, a pledge that has never been made by the U.S. side.

Chinese FM spokesperson Zhao Lijian made the remarks when commenting on U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's recent remarks that calling CCP " a major threat to the world".

"For some time, this politician has been vilifying and smearing China out of ideological bias and selfish interests. But China will never allow it to run amok and confuse the public," Zhao said, adding that Pompeo's preposterous lies are born of ignorance of history and reality and Cold War and zero-sum game mentality.

Some U.S. politicians paint the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government as "heretics" to justify their sinister intentions of waging an "ideological crusade", he said.

"As long as China stays committed to the path of peaceful development it independently chooses for itself and does not follow the path designed by the United States, they will see China as an eyesore and oppose China whenever they could."

The spokesperson added that the leadership of the Communist Party of China is a choice of history and the people,and any attempt to change or even contain China will not succeed and is bound to fail.

As for the so-called "China threat" theory, Zhao said China is a positive force for global peace and prosperity, not a negative factor; an opportunity, not a threat.