US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has cited Chinese Peoples Liberation Army's (PLA) "deadly" confrontation with India as one of the reasons for Washington recalibrating its defence commitments in Europe and looking at countering emerging threats.
The threats from China to India and countries in Southeast Asia and the challenges in the South China Sea are going to dictate the allocation of defence resources as US cuts troop levels in Germany, he said on Thursday at a virtual meeting of the Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund.
He said that China's expansionism is "the challenge of our time" and the US wants to ensure that its resources are in place to meet it.
He said that China's expansionism is "the challenge of our time" and the US wants to ensure that its resources are in place to meet it.
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