WASHINGTON: U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the United States was engaged in a “multi-pronged effort… to convince China to…
WASHINGTON: U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the United States was engaged in a “multi-pronged effort… to convince China to behave like a normal nation on commerce” and respect international law after Washington indicted 10 Chinese nationals for stealing aviation secrets.
Speaking in a radio interview, Pompeo called China’s behaviour in stealing intellectual property “inappropriate” and “not consistent with being a superpower or a leader in the world.”
“Stealing another country’s intellectual property, something China’s been engaged in to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, is just something China has to figure out a way to stop,” he told the Brian Kilmeade Show.
Pompeo also told the Laura Ingraham radio show that over the long term, China was probably the biggest national security challenge facing the United States and the Trump administration was pushing back “on all fronts.”
“Where the semiconductor piece fits in is it’s part of a mosaic of our strategic effort to push back against this continued Chinese effort,” he said.
