(Bloomberg) --
China’s foreign ministry denounced White House trade adviser Peter Navarro as a “liar,” rejecting his claims that the country had hoarded medical equipment.
“Navarro has been a consistent liar with no credibility,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a regular news briefing Tuesday in Beijing. He made the unusually blunt assessment in response to a question about Navarro’s claims that China was holding back supplies of vital personal protective equipment.
Navarro, who wrote “Death by China: Confronting the Dragon -- a Global Call to Action” before joining the White House, has equated the dispute with China to “a war.” “It’s a war that China started by spawning the virus, by hiding the virus, by hoarding personal protective equipment during the time it hid the virus,” he said during an interview Saturday with Fox News.
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