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China Lambasts Peter Navarro's Credibility

Joyce Huang

   China has seized on an embarrassing revelation about U.S. President
   Donald Trump's top trade adviser to score points and toughen its
   rhetoric in its long-running trade dispute with the United States.

   At a briefing Tuesday in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua
   Chunying said the international community had been "in uproar and
   shocked" by revelations that U.S. trade adviser Peter Navarro used a
   fictitious analyst as a source of quotes in several books.

   "Making up and peddling lies, even making policy based on lies, is not
   only ridiculous, but also extremely dangerous," Hua was quoted as
   saying by Reuters news agency.

   A day earlier, the state-run television network CCTV said in an
   editorial that Navarro "has put much of his fantasy into practice as
   one of the most important pushing hands behind the U.S.'s decisions to
   stage a trade war against China. He is also the most radical White
   House adviser to voice the China threat narratives."

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