Republican Senator of Utah Mitromny It warned on Sunday that China is expected to become the world’s most powerful military and economic body, which may be the most significant challenge facing US foreign policy.
“The real challenge…is the emergence of China, which is expected to become the world’s most powerful economy and the world’s most powerful military. This represents a greater challenge in the coming decades,” Romney said. CNN Union state.
“I think the President is becoming more and more aware of this challenge, and so is his Secretary of State. [Antony] Mr. Brinken, I think they want to unite our alliance to realize this reality and take action to prevent China from embarking on the path of confrontation and military aggression,” he added.
Romney went on to discuss China’s lack of transparency in the coronavirus pandemic and its role in several human rights violations committed against minorities and citizens in Hong Kong.
The United States and other world leaders accused the country of placing more than 1 million Uyghurs-mainly the Turkish Muslim minority-in Detention camps in Xinjiang And force them to work in dangerous conditions against their will.
“China is doing a lot of very bad things,” Romney said on Sunday. “The whole world needs to recognize what they are doing, and then say,’Listen, that’s untenable. We won’t allow you to play the dominant role you want to have on the world stage, and you’re Commit these atrocities,'” he said.
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China’s growing army has increasingly become a topic of concern to world leaders.In an interview published in Time Magazine Financial Times Friday, senior NATO Officer Stuart Pitch warned China’s rapid military expansion is “shocking.”
“China is building ships so fast, the Chinese Air Force is so modernized, how much it has invested in network and other forms of information management, especially facial recognition, which is shocking,” Pitch told the news media .
“I think it’s very important to pay close attention to this. If you were a leader in China and had a modern and powerful army, what would you do? You deploy it, you move it,” he added.
Specifically for This Washington post Last month, Romney added that China’s growing development is becoming the most serious “existential threat” to the United States.
“China is expected to surpass us economically, militaryly, and geopolitically. These measures are not independent: a dominant economy provides the necessary conditions to build a dominant military. Together, these measures will win the hearts and minds of many countries in China. And ideas. Survive and prosper,” Romney wrote.
Weekly newspaper The White House was contacted for more comment, but did not respond in time for publication.
