U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is feeling the heat from a fire breathing Red Dragon. The Chinese government-run publication Global Times ran a scathing editorial Sunday accusing Pompeo in “a string of violent attacks” against China.

China’s state media called him “the worst U.S. secretary of state in its history.” Plus added, “He is the senior US official who’s the most active in attacking the CPC [Communist Party of China], which reflects extreme hostility against socialist China and reveals his malicious goal to push the U.S. and China into strategic rivalry.” And stated, “The former top intelligence official is steering the US Department of State into becoming the Central Intelligence Agency.”

Pompeo had expressed to Fox News host Sean Hannity: “China caused an enormous amount of pain, loss of life and now a huge challenge for the global economy and the American economy as well by not sharing the information they had.” In addition, “Sean, you should know we still don’t have full transparency from the Chinese Communist Party.”

He announced that, “I’m still concerned there are things we don’t know. We don’t know the history, and we haven’t been able to get our team on the ground to do the work it needs to do.” Pompeo proclaimed, “This is an ongoing challenge in that the Chinese Communist Party and the World Health Organization have failed to do the things they have the responsibility to do when they have a pandemic inside of their country.”

And further he promised the Chinese government will “pay a price for what they did.” Pompeo stressed, “[Americans] know this is a result of the virus that originated in Wuhan, China, and they know the Chinese government didn’t do the things it needed to do. There will be a cost associated with that.”

An opinion piece run by Chinese state-run media on Sunday called him “the enemy of world peace” also arguing that Pompeo has “totally betrayed the basic responsibility with which he is entrusted to promote international understanding.” The war of words ratcheting up here as the world waits to see what’s next.