LONDON, July 21 — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will discuss ways to tackle the growing might of China when he meets Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson today, just a week after London ordered a purge of Huawei gear from the 5G network. President Donald Trump lauded Johnson’s ban on...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is greeted by Robert Wood Johnson, the United States’ ambassador to Britain, as he arrives in London, Britain, July 20, 2020. — Reuters pic
President Donald Trump lauded Johnson’s ban on Huawei, though he also claimed he had forced London’s hand due to concern over China, which he considers to be the United States’ main geopolitical rival of the 21st century. “We welcome news that the UK will prohibit new purchases of 5G equipment from Huawei and phase out existing Huawei equipment from its 5G telecommunications networks,” the US State Department said in a statement about the trip.
China says the West — and Washington in particular — is gripped by a mixture of anti-Chinese hysteria and colonial thinking about the communist state as it only seeks to bring prosperity to its 1.4 billion people.
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