US: Homeland Security inaugurates China Working Group, will tackle threats from China

US Department of Homeland Security has recently inaugurated China Working Group in a bid articulate, prioritise and coordinate department's response to evolving threats by Chinese Communist Party (CCP). new working group will reportedly tackle China's continued efforts to undermine US ecomic prosperity, national security and fundamental freedoms.

Tackling China's evolving threat

Acting Secretary Homeland Security Ch F Wolf said at inaugural meeting, " Chinese threat is intensifying at an alarming rate through CCP's malign activity in tre, cybersecurity, immigration, and intellectual property domains." He ded, "Consistent with President Trump's leership and direction, DHS is at forefront of combating se threats to Homeland and our way of life. department's role in curbing China's malign activity has never been more important r timely. DHS's newly-established China Working Group will prioritise, coordinate, and articulate decisive near- and long-term actions commensurate with threat we face."

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As per reports, working group is meant to protect US from China’s relentless campaign to undermine US ecomic prosperity, national security and fundamental freedoms enjoyed by people of United States. US Secretary of State has called on countries to exercise pressure on China in more creative and assertive ways. Pompeo has also said that former President Ronald Reagan use to contend with Soviets by trusting ir words but always verifying it, in a slight aptation of that principle when applied to China, Pompeo says that words of Chinese leers must t be trusted and on top of that must be verified.

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Pompeo slams China

US Secretary of State Pompeo, in his speech at Richard Nixon Presidential Library on July 23, accused China of tricking US and western world with its ory of ‘Peaceful Rise’. Pompeo levelled several allegations against China, from aggression in international arena to human rights abuses at home, and mentioned that US President Donald Trump has finally said ‘eugh’.

(Im Credit: AP, with ANI inputs)