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Chinese State Media: We’re Not Calling Biden ‘President-Elect’ Yet

China’s state-run Global Times stressed on Friday that congratulatory messages from Chinese officials to former Vice President Joe Biden are meant to show “utmost respect to U.S. laws, election rules, all parties, and voters,” but that top Chinese leaders will not send official congratulations until “official results are released” from the 2020 U.S. election.

BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 04: Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shake hands with U.S Vice P

Chinese Media: Pompeo ‘Tampering with the DNA of Human Diplomacy’

Communist China is evidently delighted by the prospect of dealing with someone other than Mike Pompeo as U.S. Secretary of State. On Wednesday the state-run Global Times published a hostile farewell from chief editor Hu Xijin in which he portrayed Pompeo as a mad scientist who has been “tampering with the DNA of human diplomacy.”

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens to a question fr