'Quad has been reinvigorated': Pompeo tells US lawmakers in big signal to China

In a big mission that will surely throw chills down China's throat, United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has said that 'Qurilateral Security Dialogue' – more commonly kwn as 'Qu' –  involving US, India, Japan, and Australia "has been reinvigorated".

In a statement to US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, Mike Pompeo listed out a string of accomplishments America h on China front and highlighted steps taken by or countries to counter Beijing's bellicose attitude. 

"Japan led G7’s condemnation of China’s national security law targeting Hong Kong. EU condemned law too, and also declared China a “systemic rival” just last year... Our Qu – United States, Australia, India, and Japan – has been reinvigorated," Pompeo told US lawmakers.

He highlighted India's recent digital strike on Chinese businesses by banning over a hundred Chinese apps following dely clashes in Lakh in June. Pompeo asserted that Washington's diplomatic efforts are working, and momentum is building to mitigate threats that Chinese Communist Party presents by citing examples of countries standing up to Beijing.

"In Indo-Pacific, Australia has declared China's South China Sea claims unlawful and illegitimate as have we... India has banned 106 Chinese applications that threatened its citizens’ privacy and security. Our diplomatic efforts are working, and momentum is building to mitigate threats that Chinese Communist Party presents. All 10 ASEAN nations have insisted that South China Sea disputes must be settled on basis of international law, including UNCLOS," Pompeo said.

America's top diplomat has applauded New Delhi many times over app ban and its renewed interest to fire up Qu. Indian, US, and Japanese navies are scheduled to hold ir annual 'Malabar' exercises later this year and India is expected to finally invite Australia to join.  Qu has been seen as a credible and potent deterrent to China's increasingly aggressive posture on geopolitical and ecomic affairs.

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'Distrust and verify'

Pompeo h previously said that 'distrust and verify' will be new US policy when it comes to Asian power. Pompeo also called on international coalition of  nations to “pressurise” China in a more creative and assertive manner.  

In his dress at Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, Pompeo last week said, " only way to truly change communist China is to act on basis of what its leers do, t what y say. When it comes to CCP (Chinese Communist Party), I say, 'distrust and verify'.”

Calling Chinese actions as a threat to world, Pompeo furr stressed that “ free nations” of world, must induce a change in CCP's ways as its actions threaten global prosperity. Pompeo warned, “If free world does t change communist China, n communist China will change us.”

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