US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after the meeting with the Quad group in Tokyo has just revealed that China has deployed nearly 60,000 troops on the Northeastern border of India amid the escalated tensions with the latter country. Not only this, but he said China poses threat to the Quad nations.
Indo-Pacific nations aka Quad-nations foreign ministers which include the US, Japan, India, and Australia have recently met in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Notably, the quad meeting took place even as China is displaying its aggressive military behavior in the Indo-Pacific, South China Sea, and along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
"The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border,” Pompeo told The Guy Benson Show in an interview on Friday after his return from Tokyo where he took part in the second Quad ministerial meeting with India, Japan, and Australia.
"I was with my foreign minister counterparts from India, Australia, and Japan a format that we call the Quad, four big democracies, four powerful economies, four nations, each of whom has real risk associated with the threats imposed attempting to be imposed by the Chinese Communist Party. And they see it in their home countries too," he said.
Pompeo met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Tokyo on Tuesday and they emphasized the need to work together to advance, peace, prosperity, and security in the Indo-Pacific and around the globe. And the meeting with Jaishankar was "productive", said Pompeo.
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"They see, the people of their (Quad) nations understanding that we all slept on this for too long. For decades, the West allowed the Chinese Communist Party to walk all over us. The previous administration bent a knee, too often allowed China to steal our intellectual properties and the millions of jobs that came along with it. They see that in their country too," he said in the interview.
In another interview with Larry O’Connor, Pompeo said in his meetings with his counterparts from Japan, India, and Australia, they started to develop a set of policies that could jointly prove beneficial for the nations to work together towards the present scenario of the threats that China's Communist Party to these countries.
Reportedly, India and China are engaged in border conflicts since early May which has predominantly tainted the bilateral ties. So far, there have been numerous diplomatic and military talks but has not reached a concrete conclusion.