Pompeo Announces New US-EU Dialogue: ‘The World is Now Confronting China’ The United States has agreed to establish with the European Union “a new mechanism for discussing the concerns we have about the threat China poses to the West and our shared democratic ideals,†Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday.
The move is significant, as the Trump administration has been seeking to counter a perception – one that Beijing works hard to encourage – that deep tensions over a range of sensitive issues are a bilateral affair, arising from U.S. hostility.
Pompeo told an event hosted by the German Marshall Fund that China is getting the message – that “this isn’t the United States confronting China, that the world is now confronting China.†In that vein he pointed too to the recent G7 foreign ministers’ statement condemning Beijing’s bid to impose a national security law on Hong Kong............
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