Mike Pompeo is in New Delhi for the 2 + 2 High Level Meeting between the US and India
Beijing:
China today urged US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “stop sowing discord” between Beijing and countries in the region, undermining regional peace and stability, during his visit to India for dialogue level aimed at further scaling up the India-US package. defense and security links and strengthen strategic cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
Mr Pompeo arrived in India on Monday with Defense Secretary Mark T Esper for the third edition of the US-Indian 2 + 2 Dialogue with their counterparts External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh.
After his visit to India, Mr. Pompeo is due to visit Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
Asked about Mike Pompeo’s visit to India and other South Asian countries in which the top US diplomat would focus on threats from China, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said during a press briefing in Beijing that Mike Pompeo’s attacks and accusations against China were not new.
“He repeated them over and over again,” Mr. Wang said.
“These are baseless accusations that reflect his clinging to the Cold War mentality and ideological prejudices. We urge him to abandon the Cold War and the zero-sum game mentality and stop sowing the seeds of the discord between China and countries in the region and undermine the regional system, peace and stability, ”Wang said.
His remarks come amid the signing by India and the United States of the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) that will allow the sharing of high-end military technologies, classified satellite data and critical information between the two countries.
The signature of the BECA long negotiated between the two strategic partners also signals a further strengthening of bilateral defense and military relations, and this comes against the backdrop of the tense border standoff between India and China in the east of Ladakh.
In August, Mike Pompeo said China posed a threat to the West that was in some ways worse than that posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
“What is happening now is not Cold War 2.0. The challenge of resisting the threat from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) is worse in some ways. The CCP is already entangled in our economies, in our politics, in our societies in the same way that the Soviet Union has ever been, ”he said in a speech in the Czech Senate.
In July, Mike Pompeo criticized China for its aggressive actions against its neighbors, including “spark” a deadly confrontation with India in eastern Ladakh, saying Beijing could not threaten countries and intimidate them in the Himalayas.
“The recent clashes started by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are just the latest examples of the Chinese Communist Party’s unacceptable behavior. It is important that democracies like ours work together, especially as we see more clearly than ever the true scope of the challenge posed by the Chinese Communist Party, ”he said.
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