Mike Pompeo spoke about important U.S. allies in Asia (File)
Washington:
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized China for its aggressive military behavior and the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party to the Quad group of countries, including India, as well as Beijing’s response to handling the pandemic of coronavirus.
In several talks after his return from the Quad ministerial meeting in Japan, Mike Pompeo pointed out how the Chinese have started to amass huge forces against India and that the Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border.
Speaking on the Guy Benson Show, Pompeo said, “One million people are now dead because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) did not respond to the Wuhan virus as it should have. The economies were destroyed in as a direct consequence of that. The Indians see 60,000 Chinese soldiers at their northern border. “
The US Secretary of State reiterated this in an interview with Larry O’Conner when talking about his “important trip” where he met his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar with those from Japan and Australia, in order to continue the efforts to “build the coalition that works so that the Chinese Communist Party does not become the world hegemony it seeks to become.”
“The Chinese have now started to gather huge forces against India in the north,” Pompeo told Larry O’Conner.
Pompeo also spoke of important United States allies in Asia.
“They absolutely need the United States to be their ally and partner in this fight. But they have all seen it, whether it is the Indians, who are actually having a physical confrontation with the Chinese in the Himalayas in the north. East India. The Chinese have now started to gather huge forces against India in the north – whether it was the Australians who did the simple thing of saying the Chinese messed up this deal with the virus, and we would like to understand what happened and said we should have a full investigation, and in exchange for that the Chinese Communist Party started to extort, coerce, intimidate Australians, ”Pompeo said.
He also alleged that the previous US administration “bent a knee” and allowed China to steal their intellectual property and jobs.
“For decades, the West has allowed the Chinese Communist Party to step on us. The previous administration has bent one knee, too often allowed China to steal our intellectual property and the millions of jobs that come with it. They see it in their country, too, ”he said.
“I was with my counterparts in the foreign ministers of India, Australia and Japan – a format we call the Quad, four great democracies, four powerful economies, four nations, each of which has real risk. associated with the threats imposed – trying to be imposed by the Chinese Communist Party. And they also see it in their country of origin. They see the people of their nations understand that we have all slept on it too long, ”Pompeo added.
“The Australians saw that when they did – they had the temerity to just call for an investigation into the virus that the Chinese started to exercise economic power against them and try to coerce and intimidate them.” , Pompeo said.
The Quad meeting of foreign ministers in Tokyo took place on Tuesday.
On Hugh Hewitt’s show, Pompeo referred to the “crackdown on predatory Chinese Communist Party activity” by the four democracies of Quad-India, Japan, Australia and the United States.
“The Indians have banned dozens and dozens of Chinese apps, and stopped having their government buy products from China. It’s remarkable. It’s a job that was done diplomatically, and then it there are also the security concerns, ”he said.
