TIL Desk/World/Washington/ Sharpening his attack on China, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Thursday (local time) said that it is time “for a new alliance of democracies” to counter Beijing’s aggressive policies. “We cannot face this challenge alone.
The UN, NATO, the G7, the G20, our combined economic, diplomatic and military power is surely enough to meet this challenge if directed properly. Maybe it is time for a new grouping of like-minded nations… a new alliance of democracies,” said Pompeo while speaking on ‘Communist China and the Free World’s Future’ at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California.
Welcoming the Chinese people who have fought against their government bravely, he said, “We must also engage and empower the Chinese people…a dynamic, freedom-loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).” “Communists always lie, but the biggest lie is that the Chinese Communist Party speaks for 1.4 billion people who are surveilled, oppressed and scared to speak out,” he added.
