Beijing on Friday criticised US Vice President
Mike Pence and top diplomat
Mike Pompeo as "hideous" and "hypocritical" after they called for religious freedom in
China at a major meeting in Washington.
Secretary of State Pompeo said Thursday that
Washington will create a new international body to campaign for religious freedom, speaking after a conference where he called China's mass incarceration of mostly Muslim Uighurs "the stain of the century".
At a press briefing in
Beijing on Friday, foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang rebuffed the criticism.