Updated: October 10, 2020 11:55:56 am
Addressing the threat China poses to the Quadruple nations, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the country has deployed 60,000 troops to its border with India. (Reuters / Archive)
Addressing the “threat” that China poses to the Quad nations, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the country has deployed 60,000 troops to its border with India. He also said that India “absolutely needs the United States to be its ally and partner in this fight.”
The foreign ministers of the Quadruple countries – the United States, India, Australia and Japan – met in Tokyo on Tuesday for the first in-person talks since the pandemic began. Upon his return to the United States, Pompeo gave three interviews during which he spoke of China’s “bad behavior” and said that “the tide has begun to turn.”
“I was with my fellow foreign ministers from India, Australia and Japan … four great democracies, four powerful economies, four nations, each of which has a real risk associated with the threats that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to impose. And they also see it in their home countries, “he said on The Guy Benson Show.
He then told Larry O ‘Connor: “But everyone has seen it, be it the Indians, who are actually having a physical confrontation with the Chinese in the Himalayas in the northeast part of India, the Chinese have now started to accumulate huge forces against India in the north. “
He said the Quad countries are developing a set of policies to resist the threats that China poses to each of the four nations. “(India) absolutely needs the United States to be its ally and partner in this fight,” he said.
“The world has awakened. The tide has begun to turn. And the United States, under the leadership of President Trump, has now built a coalition that will roll back the threat and uphold the good order, the rule of law, and the basic civic decency that comes from the democracies that control the world, not the regimes. authoritarian, ”he said. additional.
Speaking to Fox News, he said: “They have stacked 60,000 soldiers against the Indians in the north. When Australians had the audacity to call for an investigation of the Wuhan virus and where it started, something we know a lot about, the Chinese Communist Party threatened them. They harassed them.
“We need partners and friends. They will certainly try to react. But what the Chinese Communist Party had gotten used to, frankly, for a long time was watching America bend one knee, see us turn the other cheek, and appease them.
“That only encouraged his bad behavior, his evil activity. Our rejection? They understand that we mean it. They have observed that we are going to confront them and impose costs on them. I am sure that this activity, over time, will change the nature of what the Chinese Communist Party tries to do to harm America, “he said.
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India and China have been locked in a border clash in eastern Ladakh for more than five months. The two sides have been holding talks to ease the situation.
(With PTI inputs)
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