WASHINGTON: US of State Mike Pompeo has urged on what he said “free nations” to triumph over the threat of “new tyranny” from China.
Pompeo said China is currently increasingly authoritarian at home, and aggressive in its hostility to freedom everywhere else.
He added that if the free world doesn’t change China, “Communist China will change us” while speaking at the Richard Nixon presidential library in Yorba Linda, California.
Pompeo said Nixon’s worry about what he did by opening the world to the Communist Party of China in the 1970s had been prophetic, international media reported.
It should be noted that the US justice department charged four Chinese researchers with visa fraud on Thursday, alleging they lied about their ties to China’s People’s Liberation Army, according to international media reports.
While three of them were arrested, one was taken refuge in the San Francisco consulate.
Pompeo also said China had taken advantage of the US and western generosity as it implemented reforms, and criticized the previous US administrations for being complacent with China.
He maintained Beijing broke the international commitments on Hong Kong’s autonomy, as well as on the South China Sea.
He added that Washington had asked China to close its consulate in Houston, Texas, this week as it had become a center for espionage as well as operations to illegally obtain US companies’ trade secrets, the reports added.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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