On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, “Beijing has a pattern of instigating territorial disputes. The world shouldn’t allow this bullying to take place, nor should it permit it to continue”.
The US Secretary of State referred to the recent June 15 Galwan Valley territorial dispute between India and China, which left 20 Indian soldiers killed.
Pompeo accused China of taking “incredibly aggressive action” in the clash with India over the disputed area on the Line of Actual Control.
The US Secretary of State, during a news conference at the State Department, stated that “The Chinese took incredibly aggressive action. The Indians have done their best to respond to that,” and that we should “put this in the context of General-Secretary Xi Jinping and his behaviour throughout the region, and indeed, throughout the world.”
His comments are a reflection of the running tensions between the United States and China over handling of coronavirus, China’s actions in Hong Kong and the two-year trade dispute between the two nations.