Pompeo said that the ruling Chinese Communist Party was posing a threat to India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, adding that the "US military is postured appropriately to meet the challenges."
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said that America is reducing its troop presence in Europe and deploying it to other places in response to the Chinese threat to India and Southeast Asian nations.
He made this remark in response to a question at the Brussels Forum that he had addressed virtually. On being asked why the US had reduced troops in Germany, he said that they were moved to other places.
Pompeo said that the ruling Chinese Communist Party was posing a threat to India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, adding that the "US military is postured appropriately to meet the challenges."
On June 19, during an online conference on democracy held at Copenhagen in Denmark, Pompeo reprimanded China for escalating border tensions with India.
"The PLA (People`s Liberation Army) has escalated border tensions with India, the world's most populous democracy. It is militarising the South China Sea and illegally claiming more territory there, threatening vital sea lanes," Pompeo said, a day after he expressed deep condolences to India on the death of 20 soldiers in violent clashes with Chinese troops at the Galwan Valley in Ladakh on June 15.
For context, the clash in the Galwan Valley is the biggest confrontation between the two militaries after their 1967 clashes in Nathu La when India lost around 80 soldiers while the death toll on the Chinese side was over 300.
The Chinese soldiers used stones, nail-studded sticks, iron rods and clubs in carrying out brutal attacks on Indian soldiers after they protested the erection of a surveillance post by China on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Galwan.
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