New Delhi, Jan 23 (TIWN) Persisting with its muscular in-your-face diplomatic style China, Beijing has sanctioned 28 outgoing senior officials in the former Donald Trump administration, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

A blunt Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that these individuals were spreading lies, signaling that China was not departing from its aggressive wolf-warrior style of diplomatic  communication.  "This notorious liar and cheater is making himself a doomed clown and a joke of the century with his show of lies and madness just before the curtain falls," Hua Chunying, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said, referring to Pompeo.