China has increased its forces along the real line of control (LAC) with India, said Mike Pompeo.
Washington, United States:
China has deployed its forces along the real line of control (LAC) with India, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday, saying that authoritarian regimes are taking this kind of action.
Several areas along the LAC in Ladakh and North Sikkim have recently seen a significant military accumulation by the Indian and Chinese armies, in a clear signal of intensification of the tensions and hardening of the respective positions by the two parties, even two weeks after their engagement. two separate face-offs.
“We still see growing forces from China moving north of India today to the actual line of control there at the Indian border,” said Pompeo to Marc Thiessen and Danielle Pletka of the podcast. “What The Hell Is Going On” by AEI. .
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to hide and delay the global response to the coronavirus pandemic that started in Wuhan. He took action destroying the incredible freedoms of the people of Hong Kong, he said.
“These are just two elements of the behavior of this Chinese Communist Party regime. The nature and the activity they undertake, the continuous efforts to steal intellectual property, to progress in the South China Sea,” he said. -he says.
Pompeo said these are the types of actions that authoritarian regimes are taking and that they are having a real impact not only on the Chinese in China and the Hong Kongers in Hong Kong, but also on people around the world.
“The United States has the responsibility and the ability to push this back, to ensure that the American people are properly served by a foreign policy that recognizes the threats that emanate from China today,” he said. .
Responding to a question, Mike Pompeo said that recent Chinese actions, whether on the Indian border, in Hong Kong or in the South China Sea, have been part of Chinese behavior in the recent past.
“It is not only in the past six months. We have seen in recent years the continued Chinese construction of their military capabilities, then an increasingly aggressive action. I mentioned India. You have mentioned the South China Sea.
“We see the same kind of thing with them trying to build ports around the world as part of their Belt and Road initiative, places where they can move the People’s Liberation Army navy. We have seen their continued efforts to expand militarily, “says Pompeo.
In the past 20 years, the United States has not responded to these things in a real way, he said.
“We have considered that 1.5 billion people in the Chinese market are so important to the US economy, and the risk that the Chinese will react by shutting us down for the benefit of another nation – I think people are everything just too worried than taking the answers we give to all the other countries behaving like China, “said Pompeo.
