New Delhi: United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday said India needed America as its ally, warning New Delhi of China’s growing threat in the Indo-Pacific region.
“The Chinese have now begun to amass huge forces against India in the north,” Pompeo said in an interview with radio host Larry O’Connor. “The world has awakened. The tide’s begun to turn. And the United States under President [Donald] Trump’s leadership has now built out a coalition that will push back against the threat.” He added that India needed to “partner in this fight”. Pompeo was referring to the alliance of India, US, Japan and Australia, known as Quad or Quadrilateral coalition.
The Quad members had met earlier in the week in Tokyo where the US secretary of state said that Beijing’s actions in the Indo-Pacific region make it critical for the four countries to cooperate to protect their partners and their people from Chinese “exploitation, corruption and coercion”.
He had also accused China of covering up the coronavirus pandemic and worsening it, while also threatening democracy and diversity in the region with its assertive actions. In another interview, Pompeo made similar claims. “The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border,” he told The Guy Benson Show in an interview on Friday.
In the interview with O’Connor, Pompeo said that the alliance partners have started to develop a set of understandings and policies that can be used to present a resistance to the threats that the Chinese Communist Party poses to each of the Quad countries, according to media. He added that the citizens of the four countries can see that China is a threat.
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