MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. The United States stooped to outright rudeness by trying to publicly dictate to China what its government should do, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Izvestia in an interview.

"They got used to commanding others. They even resorted to outright rudeness by publicly dictating to China what it needs to do," the minister said.

In this context, he mentioned the recent phone conversation between US Deputy Secretary Kurt Campbell and Chinese Executive Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu.