Politico | Mike Pompeo says Chinese threat may be worse than ‘Cold War 2.0’
- US Secretary of State urges Czechs to stand up to Beijing like they did to Soviets
- Pompeo raises prospect of Chinese world domination on first stop of five-day Central Europe trip
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Siegfried Mortkowitz on politico.com on August 12, 2020.
China poses a threat to the West that is in some ways “worse” than that posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a speech to the Czech senate on Wednesday.
“What’s happening now isn’t Cold War 2.0. The challenge of resisting the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] threat is in some ways worse,” Pompeo said, using the first stop of his five-day visit to Central Europe to raise the prospect of Chinese world domination and remind his Czech hosts of their years under Soviet oppression.
“The CCP is already enmeshed in our economies, in our politics, in our societies in ways the Soviet Union never was.”
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While he noted that Russia continues to “undermine” Czech democracy and security, with disinformation campaigns and cyberattacks, Pompeo maintained that China’s “campaigns of coercion of control” were a bigger danger.
