China cannot threaten countries and bully them in the Himalayas: US Government

Attacking China for its aggressive moves against its neighbours, including "instigating" a dely confrontation with India in eastern Lakh, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that Beijing cant threaten countries and bully m in Himalayas. Speaking at a news conference in London on Tuesday, Pompeo said China was one of important parts of his discussions with his British counterpart Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

“You can't go make claims for maritime regions that you have lawful claim to. You can't threaten countries and bully m in Himalayas. You can't eng in cover-ups and co-opt international institutions like World Health Organisation,” Pompeo said.

Pompeo's comment on Chinese bullying of its Himalayan neighbours came in response to a question if US would like UK to do more to confront China.

“I don’t think about it that way; we don’t think about it that way. We think that entire world needs to work toger to ensure that every country, including China, behaves in international system in ways that are appropriate and consistent with international order,” he said.

“We talked about how we've seen Hong Kong's freedoms crushed. We've watched CCP bully its neighbours, militarise features in South China Sea, and instigate a dely confrontation with India,” Pompeo said.

troops of India and China are locked in a standoff in several areas along Line of Actual Control in eastern Lakh since May 5. situation deteriorated last month following Galwan Valley clashes that left 20 Indian Army personnel de. China recently staked claim over Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary in Bhutan at Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council and opposed funding to project. China claims almost all of South China Sea as its sovereign territory. China has been building military bases on artificial islands in region also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.

discussions between Pompeo and Raab came hours after UK suspended its extrition treaty with Hong Kong in response to a controversial security law imposed by China in former British territory. He praised UK for its recent decision on China in particular those related to Hong Kong and banning Huawei from UK's 5G networks.

“I want to take this opportunity to congratulate British government for its principled responses to se challenges. You me a sovereign decision to ban Huawei from future 5G networks. You've joined or free nations to condemn China's broken promises on Si-British treaty,” he said.

US wants to see every nation who understands freedom and democracy and values that and kws that it is important to ir own people, ir own sovereign country to be successful, to understand this threat that Chinese Communist Party is posing to m and to work both mselves and collectively to restore what is rightfully irs, he said. Describing his meeting with Raab as productive, Pompeo said that y talked about challenge presented by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and COVID-19 virus that originated from Wuhan, China.

"On behalf of American people, I want to extend my condolences to British people for your losses from this preventable pandemic. CCP's exploitation of this disaster to furr its own interests has been disgraceful. Rar than helping world, General Secretary Xi (Jinping) has shown world party’s true face," he said.

Earlier on Tuesday, US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, during his interaction with London-based think-tank International Institute for Strategic Studies, described Chinese military's aggressive activities "destabilising" and said America was "very closely" monitoring situation between India and China along Line of Actual Control.

Esper also highlighted "increased" military cooperation with India and called it as "one of most important defence relationships of 21th century." In his dress, Esper said China has a catalogue of b behaviour which accompanies a pattern of its brazen disregard for international commitments, from its failure to uphold its obligations under World Tre Organization to regularly disrespecting rights of or nations under 1982 Law of Sea Convention. Esper called on China's leers to abide by international laws and rms that China and Chinese people have benefited greatly from over years.

“We are committed to a constructive and results-oriented relationship with China and within our defence relationship to open lines of communication and risk reduction,” Esper said.