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PRAGE (Reuters) – China’s global economic power is somehow making the communist country a more difficult enemy to face than the Soviet Union during the Cold War, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a visit to the Czech Republic on Wednesday. Pompeo called on countries in Europe to …
Read More »In China, fears of financial Iron Curtain as US tensions grow
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Read More »Pompeo says he warned Lavrov against offering bounties to U.S. soldiers
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