New York, July 31:\u00a0China is testing the world with its incursions into Indian territory but the tide is turning against Beijing, according to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe claim that they now made for real estate in Bhutan, the incursion that took place in India,\u201d Pompeo said on Thursday, are signs the Chinese \u201care probing the world to see if we are going to stand up to their threats, to their bullying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I am more confident than I was even a year ago that the world is prepared to do that,\u201d he declared during a hearing by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/p>\n
It is going to take a global effort to confront the Chinese Communist Party, he said.<\/p>\n
He mentioned the \u201cidea of a new alliance of democracies\u201d for this and said there was a lot discussions with \u201cfriends in the region\u201d about the shape it would take.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working diplomatically to build out a set of relationships, whether that is a part of a formal organisation or not, I am not sure I know the answer to it yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a lot more work to do and we need to be serious about it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He said that it is \u201cfundamentally false\u201d to say that the US was \u201casking nations to pick sides\u201d between Beijing and Washington.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are asking every sovereign country to pick between freedom and tyranny and that is choice every leader has got to make,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cThey all know that the United States is the country that they want to be alongside. They all know that freedom and our value system and the rule of law and property rights and the protection of these inalienable rights is central to their country and I think that is why the tide is turning around the world, that people are seeing the Chinese Communist Party for what it is, the threat to the security of their people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pompeo criticised past leaderships of the US and elsewhere for missing Beijing\u2019s threat that was growing while their eyes were clouded by economic gains.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor an awful lot of time, not just the United States, but the whole world saw that there were lucrative opportunities in China. And that was basically foreign policy: Sell as much as you can, outsource jobs, build supply chains,\u201d he said.\u00ad<\/p>\n
He said that he had been \u201ctravelling the world trying to raise awareness of the threat\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are still nations who understand this threat but don\u2019t feel like they are empowered, that they are in a position where they can withstand the threats that come from the Chinese Communist Party and they need to be reassured of support,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Pompeo, who has spoken about the Chinese military threats in the seas of the Indo-Pacific region and the mountains of the Himalayas, spoke of the threats to the economies from Beijing\u2019s drive for global domination and said a multi-front campaign is needed to confront them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndia has banned 106 Chinese applications that threatened its citizens\u2019 privacy and security,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n