“It is because the PCCh is already entangled in our economies, in our politics, in our societies in a way that the Soviet Union has never been.”
The Cold War comparison with rising tensions in US-China relations began this summer, when the UK officially canceled its agreement with China to allow Huawei to participate in the progression of the UK’s 5G capabilities.
China’s UK ambassador Liu Xiaoming accused US interference of “seriously poisoning” RELATIONS between the UK and China and warned London officials who oppose “cold war” players, referring to Pompeo, who worked to prevent European countries from allowing European countries to expand their 5G Huawei. Technologies.
U.S. security officials warned of China’s ability to apply for the database of China-based telecommunications company, allowing China to interfere wherever Huawei is used to expand the next generation of cellular networks, 5G.
“Pompeo’s genuine explanation of animosity toward Chinese corporations has nothing to do with national security or democracy, freedoms, equity or reciprocity,” said China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin, late last month. “It’s just because they’re Chinese corporations and also pioneers in their industries.”
Relations between the United States and China have deteriorated more and more over the past six months, as Pompeo noted in his speech to the Czech Senate, pointing to China’s “cover-up” of the coronavirus outbreak, a new security legislation implemented in Hong Kong that has undermined the territory. . autonomy and human rights violations against Uighurs, a minority ethnic organization in western China.
“The detention of one million Uighur Muslims living in internment camps in Xijiang … it is the human rights stain of the century, backed by companies such as Huawei technologies that the secret police had not dreamed of in the past,” Pompeo told the Czech. Senate.
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The Czech Republic, along with 32 other nations, joined forces with Prague’s proposals in May 2019 to ban Huawei and embark on a “clean 5G route”, which is a program that protects the knowledge of the CCC nations.
Pompeo said it will take more time for other countries to threaten China.
“China’s global domination is not inevitable, we are the authors of our destiny. Free societies have been, their other people know, Pompeo said, addressing the Czech Senate, highlighting his time in the U.S. military when he served in Germany. during the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The PCCh is “paranoid about flexible societies,” he added.
Pompeo’s statements in the Czech Republic on security in Eastern Europe mark the first of several stops he will make in the region to deal with the power and cybersecurity factor, as well as threats from Russia and China.
His in Eastern Europe comes a few weeks after the United States announced that it would withdraw 12,000 soldiers from Germany’s former ally, some of whom will be redistributed to the Black Sea region.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the sudden withdrawal of troops replaces a strategic policy aimed at “strengthening NATO [and] strengthening Russia’s deterrence.”
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“The wind has changed, as I see it here in Europe as well. The West wins, don’t let it tell you about the decline of the West,” Pompeo said Wednesday.
“It will take us all … here in Prague, Poland, Portugal. We have a legal responsibility to speak obviously and obviously to our people, and fear. We have to face complex problems Array … and we have to do it together,” he added.