World waking up to China’s threat, will confront it: Pompeo

TIL Desk/World/New York/ US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the world is waking up to the threats from China and it will be confronted as never before by democracies. Referring to the threats from Beijing to countries around the world, Pompeo said on Wednesday: “So long as the Chinese Communist Party continues to engage in the activities that it’s been undertaking now for an awfully long time, you’ll see them confronted in ways that they have not been confronted before, not only by the US but by freedom-loving democracies all across the world.”

Speaking at the Economic Club of New York, he cited India banning Chinese apps and said: “They did it because they could see the threat to the Indian people from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “We’ve been working closely with the Indians across a broad spectrum of the – the full range of international partnership with them to assist them in making sure they had all the information they needed to make good decisions.”

But he said India did not ban the apps because the US asked it to, but because it knew of the dangers it posed to its citizens. In fact, the US has itself not banned any Chinese apps.