The 2020 Chinese Community Party is different from what it was 10 years ago, said Pompeo. (File)
Washington:
China has used a tactical situation on the ground to its advantage and has long made threats like the one that occurs on its border with India, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday.
Pompeo, responding to a question about China’s aggressive behavior on the Sino-Indian border and the South China Sea in an interview with Fox News, said the threat posed by China is real.
“The Chinese Communist Party has been on this effort, this March, for a very long time. They will certainly use a tactical situation on the ground to their advantage. But each of the problems that you have identified, there are threats that they’ve been doing it for a very long time, “he said.
Threats like the one on the border with India have been around for a very long time, said the Secretary of State.
As for the Chinese Communist Party’s military advances, they are real, said Pompeo.
“Secretary General Xi (Jinping) intends to develop his military capabilities. Our Defense Ministry is doing everything it can to make sure it understands this threat,” he said.
“I am confident that under President (Donald) Trump, our defense ministry, our armed forces, our national security establishment will keep us in a position where we can protect the American people, and indeed, we can be good partners with our allies from India, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, Europe, all over the world.
“We can be good partners by their side and keep the next century western on the model of the freedoms we have here in the United States,” he said.
Currently, there are more than 60 bills in Congress, including a bipartisan majority, against China, said Pompeo.
“This is something that I think people from all political backgrounds understand is a real risk. I don’t know which of them will arrive at the president’s office. Last week, there was one that concerned Uighurs in China.
“I encourage members of Congress to continue studying this issue, to work to help this administration do what it needs to do to prevent the Chinese Communist Party from advancing and to keep the American people safe. I know that ‘They will do it It is bipartisan, “said the top US diplomat.
The Chinese Community Party of 2020 is different from what it was 10 years ago, he said.
“It is a Chinese Communist Party that considers itself determined to destroy Western ideas, Western democracies and Western values. It puts the Americans in danger.
“The list goes on, whether it’s stealing intellectual property from the United States, destroying hundreds and millions of jobs here in the United States, or their efforts to endanger the waterways in the South China Sea, depriving commercial traffic of the possibility of crossing, armed camps in places where China is not allowed to be, “said Pompeo.
The Chinese Communist Party’s list of actions is long, he said.
“For the first time, we have a president of the United States who is ready to push this back and protect the American people,” he said.
“They (the Chinese Communist Party) have become more aggressive in their efforts to carry out misinformation campaigns as we have seen when the coronavirus was moving around the world, when they closed their own province but allowed to travel around the world, infecting hundreds of thousands of We have seen the disinformation of this campaign trying to distract attention, “he said.
