China's Defense Ministry Calls the US a "Veritable Empire of Lies":

"For its own selfish interest, [the US] dares to fabricate any lie, having long become a veritable empire of lies. From Operation Mockingbird which bribed and manipulated news media for propaganda purposes in the Cold War era, to a vial with white powder and a staged video of the 'white helmets' cited as evidence to wage war in Iraq and Syria, and then to the lie of the century made up to smear China's Xinjiang policy and the disinformation campaign orchestrated to denigrate China's vaccines in countries including the Philippines, the list goes on. The US has become notoriously fraudulent and deceitful, accelerating its own credibility bankruptcy. It should be pointed out that people may be deceived for a while, but not forever."