Pew Center survey results a slap in the face for Mike Pompeo

For years US officials and politicians have been hyping up the "China threat" theory, targeting everything from Chinese trade, investment and military to bank loans, technology and even Chinese students studying abroad.

What makes the world's only superpower paranoid and feel threatened by China or other countries is anybody's guess. But US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Central Europe this week is the latest example of how despicably some US politicians have been spreading canards about China and desperately trying to drive a wedge between China and other countries.

Pompeo, a former CIA chief, however, does not seem to have achieved much success in his designs. When he recently tried to lecture Hungarian leaders about the alleged China and Russia threat and warned that if European countries use Huawei equipment, it would make "it more difficult for us to partner alongside them", he was quickly brushed off by Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Peter Szijjarto.