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US, Slovenia to Sign 5G Joint Declaration

Nike Ching

   U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is meeting Thursday with leaders in
   Slovenia, where they are set to sign a joint declaration on 5G
   technology.

   Over the past year, European countries including Poland, Estonia and
   the Czech Republic have signed agreements with the United States
   pledging that 5G suppliers would not be subject to control by a foreign
   government without independent judicial review, which effectively
   excludes Chinese firms.

   Pompeo's visit to Slovenia is the first by a U.S. secretary of state
   since 2011.

   His schedule Thursday includes meetings with Slovenian Prime Minister
   Janez Jansa, Foreign Minister Anze Logar and President Borut Pahor.

   The State Department said some of the key topics in the talks would be
   nuclear energy, Western Balkan integration and energy issues.

   Pompeo was in the Czech Republic on Wednesday and said there that
   China's economic power is in some ways a greater global threat than the
   Soviet Union was during the Cold War.

   "The challenge of resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) threat is
   in some ways more difficult," 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."

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

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