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Original Caption: Foreign Media: Pompeo’s Visit to Vietnam Deliberately Insticks Disputes in the South China Sea
Reference News Network reported on October 31. According to a report by The Associated Press in Hanoi on October 30, as the US presidential election entered the final stage, US Secretary of State Pompeo ended his anti-Huawei issue in Vietnam on October 30. Row. During his visit, he continued to call on the countries of the region to unite against the increasingly tough attitude of Beijing.
According to the report, just days before the general election – the issue of China became the theme of the campaign – Pompeo visited Hanoi to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam. However, as he said during his previous visits to India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia, his main goal is to win support to counter China.
Pompeo told Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc: “We highly respect the sovereignty of the Vietnamese people and their country.”
The report also indicated that none of them mentioned China by name, but Pompeo used the term “sovereignty” as a synonym for opposing the invasion of China.
Pompeo said: “We look forward to continuing cooperation to build relations between the two countries, so that the region – Southeast Asia, Asia and the Indo-Pacific region – achieve security, peace and prosperity.”
The trip to Vietnam was reportedly added late to Pompeo’s itinerary.
In addition, according to a report published on October 29 on the Hong Kong South China Morning Post website titled “In Indonesia, Pompeo Deals the Last Blow to Trump’s China Agenda,” US Secretary of State Pompeo promised on October 29 that would be more vigorous. Support Indonesia’s ambitious infrastructure plans and efforts to contain the new corona epidemic. He praised the position taken by the largest Southeast Asian economy on Beijing’s “illegal” sovereignty claims in the South China Sea in multilateral forums.
He said at a joint press conference with the Indonesian Foreign Minister: “We also welcome Indonesia’s decisive action to defend maritime sovereignty around the Natuna Islands, thus setting an example.” He was referring to Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone near the South China Sea.
According to the report, in response to Pompeo’s comments, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Pompeo’s true intention “is to roll back China into an era of poverty and backwardness, and to make the world falls into the abyss of confrontation and division. “
The report noted that, like the leaders of India and Sri Lanka, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi took a more moderate stance on the China issue.
Furthermore, in response to Pompeo’s anti-China comments, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on October 29: “ Pompeo’s repeated unprovoked accusations against China have been coldly received by various countries, and their anti-China performance has become self-writing and self-writing performance. This is not surprising. I realized that Pompeo’s anti-Chinese words and actions have not only been resisted in Asia, but have also been criticized in the United States. Facts have shown that there is no market for spreading lies, creating divisions is unpopular, and incitement to confrontation has no future. Today in the 21st century, no matter how strong the power is, the practice of deceiving, coercing, and intimidating will eventually come down to a lonely family and it will suffer shameful failure. The slander and defamation of a few American politicians cannot fool the world, much less prevent China from persisting. Peaceful development and realization of the general trend of national rejuvenation “.
Profile Photo: On April 22, 2019, in Washington, USA, Secretary of State Pompeo spoke at a press conference (photo source: color bulletin)
(Editor in charge: Miao Su)
