On Saturday local time, the US embassy in China posted a photo on its official Twitter handle, US MissionCN, showing the tag of a piece of clothing, which read "Made by slave labor in China". The writing was in Chinese and the accompanying tweet, also in Chinese, said "many products made in China are made by slave laborers".

The handle seemed to be endorsing another tweet by Morgan Ortagus, a US Department of State spokesperson, who had tweeted the same in English.

Within hours, a Chinese Twitter user commented under the tweet, posting another photograph to indicate that the mission's handle had photoshopped the original writing on the tag, which seemed to say"100% Cotton" and underneath it "Made in China".

This goes on to show how the US government agencies will stoop to any level to throw muck at a nation they dislike. Whenever it suits them, some US government agencies and officials will gladly fabricate lies to serve their purpose.

It also shows that some US government agencies assume their audiences have an IQ as low as their's. For, it took less than an hour for a Chinese Twitter user to expose their lie. The embassy staff obviously did a hurried, shoddy job, assuming that social network users would not be able to see through it.

The fraud is also indicative of US officials' prejudice against the rest of the world. They believe they have a monopoly over "facts" and even the lies they peddle have to be accepted by other nations. However, it is time they woke up and smelled the coffee.