“The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border,” Mike Pompeo said in an interview.
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China has amassed more than 60,000 troops along the Royal Line of Control with India, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said as he attacked Beijing for its “bad behavior” and the threats it poses to the countries of China. the Quadrilateral.
The foreign ministers of the Indo-Pacific nations known as the Quad group (the United States, Japan, India and Australia) met in Tokyo on Tuesday in what were their first in-person talks since the coronavirus pandemic began.
The meeting took place in the context of China’s aggressive military behavior in the Indo-Pacific, the South China Sea and along the Royal Line of Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
“The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border,” Mike Pompeo told The Guy Benson Show in an interview on Friday after his return from Tokyo, where he attended the Quad’s second ministerial meeting with his Indian counterparts. Japan and Australia.
“I was with my counterparts from 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 a real risk associated with the threats imposed on the try to impose itself by the Communist Party of China. And they also see it in their countries of origin, “he said.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Foreign Minister S Jaishankar in Tokyo on Tuesday and underscored the need to work together to advance peace, prosperity and security in the Indo-Pacific. and all over the world. He described his encounter with Mr. Jaishankar as “productive”.
“They see, the people of their (quadruple) nations understanding that we all slept in this for too long. For decades, the West allowed the Chinese Communist Party to trample us. The previous administration got down on its knees, too often allowed China to steal our lives. intellectual property and the millions of jobs that came with it. They also see that in their country, “he said in the interview.
In another interview with Larry O’Connor, Pompeo said in his meetings with his counterparts in Japan, India, and Australia, that they began to develop a set of understandings and policies that can lead these countries to work together to present real resistance to the threats that the Chinese Communist Party poses to each of these nations.
“They absolutely need the United States to be their ally and partner in this fight,” he said.
“But everyone has seen it, be it the Indians, who are actually having a physical confrontation with the Chinese in the Himalayas in the northeastern part of India, the Chinese have now started amassing huge forces against India in the north if It’s the Australians who did the simple thing of saying that the Chinese screwed up this deal with the virus, and we would like to understand what happened and we said we should have a full investigation, and in exchange for that, the Chinese Communist Party started to extort, coerce, intimidate Australians, “Pompeo said.
Each of these countries has seen this, he said, adding that people in each of these countries now understand that the Chinese Communist Party poses a threat to them.
“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 good order, the rule of law, and basic civic decency. It’s coming from the democracies that control the world and not from authoritarian regimes, “said Mike Pompeo.
In his third interview with Fox News, Pompeo said that the United States under the Trump administration has begun to build the entire building of the structure and the allies and the coalition to push back China.
“Our goal is to protect the American people from the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party,” he said.
Referring to the ministerial meeting of his Quad, Pompeo said that the other three countries, Japan, India and Australia were forming a coalition, creating partners and allies around the world who understand the threat of the Chinese Communist Party in the same way that “we do it so they can protect jobs here at home. “
“Look, they have stacked 60,000 soldiers against the Indians in the north. When the Australians had the temerity to ask 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.” Mike Pompeo told Fox News.
“We need partners and friends. They will certainly try to react. But what the Chinese Communist Party had been used to, frankly, for a long time was seeing the United States bend one knee, see us turn the other cheek and appease them.” ” he said.
“That only encouraged their bad behavior, their evil activity. Our rejection, they understand that we mean it. They have observed that we will confront them and impose costs on them. I am sure that this activity is over. Time will change the nature of what the Chinese Communist Party tries to do to harm America, “Pompeo said.
India is expanding bilateral cooperation with Japan, the United States and Australia in the Indo-Pacific region.
The United States has been pushing for India to play a bigger role in the Indo-Pacific, which many countries see as an effort to contain China’s growing influence in the region.
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