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US Top Diplomat Warns of China's Global Threat

Nike Ching

   PRAGUE - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo'¯said Wednesday
   that'¯China's economic'¯power'¯is in some ways a
   greater'¯global'¯threat'¯than the Soviet Union was during the Cold
   War.'¯'¯'¯

   "Today an even greater threat is the threat posed by the Chinese
   Communist Party's (CCP) campaigns of coercion and control,"'¯Pompeo
   said'¯in a speech to the senate in the Czech Republic. "The CCP is
   already enmeshed in our economies, in our politics, in our societies in
   ways the Soviet Union never was."'¯'¯

   The top U.S. diplomat also cited Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat,
   warning of "national security" risks and data theft.'¯'¯

   "We're going to make sure that American data not end up in the hands of
   an adversary like the Chinese Communist Party," Pompeo said in
   Prague.'¯'¯'¯

   Pompeo's remarks come after China's ambassador to London accused the
   United States last month of instigating conflict with Beijing before
   the November U.S. presidential election.

   U.S.-China relations have deteriorated sharply this year over issues
   such as Beijing's management of the coronavirus, its security clampdown
   in Hong Kong and activities in the disputed South China Sea.

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