Washington real saboteur of multinational system

Unpersuasive as they were to both allies and non-allies alike, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's China-related remarks in Brussels endeavored to inject some coherence into Washington's erratic foreign policy.

His remarks in a speech at the German Marshall Fund on Tuesday offer valuable insights into the White House's outlook on the present-day world.

As a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry pointed out, Pompeo's identifying China as a "bad actor" sounded incoherent with the shared interest the Chinese and US leaders displayed in ironing out divergences. Let alone the near impossibility of rebuilding a world order excluding China, Russia and Iran, if not others.