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WASHINGTON: The whole world is starting to unite against the unjust practices of China and countries like India, Australia, Japan and South Korea will partner with the US to push back Beijing on all fronts, the US Secretary of State. Mike pompeo has said.
The United States is stepping up pressure on China, piling up visa bans, sanctions, and other restrictions that are hitting already shaky ties between the world’s two largest economies.
In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Pompeo said: “I think you’re seeing the whole world begin to unite around the core understanding that the chinese communist party it is simply going to refuse to compete fairly, reciprocally and transparently. ”
“So whether it’s our friends in India, our friends in Australia, friends in Japan or South Korea, I think everyone has come to see the risk to their own people, to their own countries, and will see them partnering with the United States. back off (to China) on all the fronts we’ve talked about tonight, “he said, responding to a question posed by host Lou Dobbs about sending an Indian warship to the South China Sea.
Dobbs said that India’s act was in response to the clashes on the border with China, and also appears with some affinity with the United States Navy which is located in the South China Sea. Dobbs wanted to know the importance of the US relationship with India in dealing with the threat from China.
“It is critical that we have friends and allies in this battle. We have worked for two years to build that. We have made real progress. You have seen many countries turn away from Huawei. You have seen them” They recognized the threat. They slept on this threat in the same way the United States did for two decades, “Pompeo said.
Beijing claims nearly the entire 1.3 million square mile South China Sea as its sovereign territory. China has been building military bases on artificial islands in the region also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.
India has argued that the South China Sea is “part of the global commons” and strongly advocates the freedom of navigation and overflight on these international waterways.
The United States had also categorically rejected the territorial claims made by Beijing in the South China Sea, stating that the “Chinese predatory worldview” has no place in the 21st century.
During the interview, Pompeo said that the United States slept while China grew.
“You talked about their missile systems, their military, all the things that have grown … the business problems, all the financial problems that you’ve talked about on your show for months and months and months now.
“President (Donald) Trump is taking each of these seriously, and I think you see the rhetoric of the Chinese Communist Party increasing because they feel the pressure that this administration is putting on them,” he said.
Noting that the ruling Chinese Communist Party made some decisions under its general secretary Xi JinpingPompeo said he has made it clear whether it is his military buildup, diplomatic efforts, the Belt and Road Initiative to try and create vassal states, a tyrannical regime around the world for global hegemony: the challenges are different.
President Trump will reject China on each of these fronts, he said.
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