Beijing has fired back at the US after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticised China's role in Venezuela as prolonging the crisis there.
China's foreign ministry said Monday that Pompeo's accusations were "unfounded" and "deliberately drove a wedge" between China and Latin America.
Foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang accused the U.S. of treating Latin America like "its own backyard to pressure, threaten and even subvert political power in other countries at every turn."
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