CHINA has hit out at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, warning that attempts by Washington to interfere in the country’s internal affairs are “doomed to failure.”

Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang accused the US of being addicted to lies and attempting to use “religion and human rights” against Beijing following Mr Pompeo’s recent remarks on China’s Uighur Muslim minority.

The US Secretary of State said last week that the Chinese Communist Party is “methodically attempting to strangle Uighur culture and stamp out the Islamic faith, including through the detention of more than one million members of Muslim minority groups.”