Months after pandemic began, China has not provided access to live virus samples, said Mike Pompeo
Washington:
On Friday, the United States criticized the Chinese military for “escalating” border tension with India and described the ruling Chinese Communist Party as a “rogue actor”.
Launching a scathing attack on the Chinese government, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Chinese Communist Party wants to reverse all the progress the free world has made through institutions like NATO and adopt a new package rules and standards adapted to Beijing.
“The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has intensified border tensions with India, the most populous democracy in the world. It is militarizing the South China Sea and illegally claiming more territory there, threatening vital shipping lanes”, said Mike Pompeo, a day after expressing his deep condolences to India for the deaths of 20 soldiers in violent clashes with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh earlier this week.
In his virtual speech on “Europe and the Chinese challenge” at the 2020 summit on democracy in Copenhagen on Friday, the highest US diplomat said that for many years, the West, in an era of hope , believed that he could change the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)) and improve the lives of the Chinese people along the way.
“Along the way, the CCP took advantage of our good will while assuring us that it wanted a cooperative relationship. As (former Chinese politician) Deng Xiaoping said,” Hide your forces, wait for your time. ” “I’ve talked in other places about why it happened. It’s a complicated story. It’s not anyone’s fault,” said Mike Pompeo.
Over the decades, European and American companies have invested in China with great optimism. He has outsourced supply chains to places like Shenzhen, opened educational institutions for PLA affiliated students, and welcomed state-supported Chinese investments in their countries, he said.
But the CCP decreed the end of freedom in Hong Kong, violating a treaty registered with the UN and the rights of its citizens. It is one of many international treaties that the party has violated, the secretary said.
“Secretary-General Xi Jinping has given the green light to a brutal campaign of repression against Chinese Muslims, a violation of human rights on a scale that we have not seen since the Second World War. Now, the APL has intensified border tensions with India, “he said.
The clash in the Galwan Valley is the biggest confrontation between the two armies after their 1967 clashes in Nathu La when India lost around 80 soldiers when the Chinese side died more than 300.
Chinese soldiers used stones, studded sticks, iron rods and clubs to carry out brutal attacks on Indian soldiers after protesting against the erection of a surveillance post by China on the Indian side of the line of actual control in Galwan.
“The CCP is not just a rogue actor in its own neighborhood. He lied about the coronavirus and let it spread to the rest of the world, while pressuring WHO to help him in his cover-up campaign. Hundreds of thousands of people have died and the global economy has been wiped out, “said Mike Pompeo.
Even now, after months of the pandemic, China did not provide access to live virus samples, facilities or patient information in December in Wuhan, he said.
China is pushing disinformation and malicious cyber campaigns to undermine governments and to widen the gap between the United States and Europe, said Mike Pompeo.
“It is a burden for developing countries to go into debt and become dependent. These are countries with high armaments to do business with Huawei, a branch of the CCP surveillance state. He is blatantly attacking European sovereignty by purchasing critical ports and infrastructure from Piraeus to Valencia, “said the top US diplomat.
“We must remove the blinders of economic ties and see that the Chinese challenge is not only at the gates; it is in every capital. Every investment by a Chinese public enterprise must be viewed with suspicion,” he said. said. said.
“Europe faces a Chinese challenge, as does the United States and so do our friends from South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. As I said earlier this week to my EU counterparts, I know there is fear in Europe that the United States wants you to choose between us and China, “he said.
“The Chinese Communist Party is forcing the choice. The party wants you to abandon the progress we have made in the free world, through NATO and other institutions – formal and informal – and you adopt a new set of rules and standards that welcome Beijing, “said Mike Pompeo.
