US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claims that the economic power of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over countries worldwide is a greater threat than what Russia posed during the Cold War.
“What is happening now is not Cold War 2.0,” Pompeo said Wednesday in an address to the Czech Senate. “The challenge of resisting the CCP threat is somehow much more difficult.”
“That’s because the CCP is already embedded in our economies, in our politics, in our societies in ways that the Soviet Union never was.”
The Cold War comparison with the heightened tensions in US-China relations began earlier this summer when the UK officially reversed its agreement with China to give Huawei a hand in developing its 5G capabilities. e UK.
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China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Liu Xiaoming, accused US interference in ‘serious poisoning’ of the UK-China relationship and warned London officials against ‘Cold War’ actors – referring to Pompeo who has been working to European countries stop Huawei from developing its 5G technologies.
U.S. security officials have warned against China’s ability to gain access to the China – based telecommunications company, making China effective where Huawei is used to develop the next generation of cellular networks, 5G.
“The real reason behind Pompeo’s hostility to Chinese companies has nothing to do with national security like democracy, freedoms, honesty or reciprocity,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wout Wenbin last month. “It’s just because they are Chinese companies and also frontrunners in their business life.”
U.S.-China ties have been steadily declining over the past six months, Pompeo noted in his address to the Czech Senate when he pointed to ‘China’ cover up ‘during the outbreak of coronavirus, the new security laws that it has been implemented in Hong Kong that undermines the territory’s autonomy and abuse of human rights against the Uyghurs, an ethnic group of minorities in western China.
“The detention of 1 million Uyghur Muslims living in internment camps in Xijiang … is the culmination of the human rights of the century, perpetuated by companies like Huawei using technologies that the secret police could only have dreamed of. in times to come, ”Pompeo told the Czech First Chamber.
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The Czech Republic, along with 32 other nations, came together in Prague’s proposals in May 2019 to ban Huawei and engage in a “5G Clean Path”, a program that captures data from the CCP’s peoples protected.
Pompeo said it would take longer for other nations to recognize China’s threats.
“China’s world domination is not indestructible, we are the authors of our destiny. Free societies have always been more attractive – your people know this, “Pompeo said, speaking to the Czech Senate, noting his time in the U.S. military while serving in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down.
The CCP is “paranoid about free societies,” he added.
Pompeo’s remarks in the Czech Republic on security in Eastern Europe mark the first of several stops he will make in the region to tackle energy and cyber security, and the threats posed for the most part from Russia and China.
His visit to Eastern Europe comes just weeks after the US announced that it would withdraw 12,000 troops from Germany in the long term, only to be distributed in the Black Sea region.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the abrupt withdrawal of troops was a strategic policy change to ‘strengthen NATO’s [and] improve Russia’s scrutiny. ”
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“The tide has turned, just as I see it turning here in Europe as well. “The West is winning, let no one tell you about the decline of the West,” Pompeo said on Wednesday.
“It will take us all… here in Prague, in Poland, in Portugal. We have the obligation to speak clearly and distinctly with our people, and without fear. We have to face complex questions … and we have to do this together, “he added.
