World Needs to ‘Wake up to the Challenges’ Posed by Chinese Regime: Defense Chief

The Epoch Times ^ | February 15, 2020 Updated: February 15, 2020 | Eva Fu

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U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper framed the Chinese regime as “Pentagon’s top concern” on Feb. 15, saying that Beijing’s aggressive commercial and military postures have posed a challenge to the world.

“The Communist Party and its associated organs … are increasingly operating in theaters outside its borders, including Europe, and seeking advantage by any means, and at any cost,” he told the world’s leading policy makers at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

“While we often doubt the transparency and forthrightness of Beijing, when it comes to their security aims, we should take the Chinese government at its word,” he said, citing Beijing’s ambition to complete military modernization by 2035, and to assert preeminent military power in Asia by 2049.

Esper said that it is essential for the international community to “wake up to the challenges” as Chinese Communist Party heads “even faster and further in the wrong direction,” with “internal repression, more predatory economic practices,” and “more aggressive military posture.”

He called out Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant, as one such example and a “poster child” for the regime’s rampant technology theft.

Huawei has been at the forefront of the 5G development and has sought to export 5G networks worldwide. U.S. officials and lawmakers have sounded the alarm that company’s equipment poses an espionage risk due to the company’s close ties with the Chinese military, as well as the fact that Chinese law compels companies to cooperate with intelligence agencies when asked.

[cba123]

There are far too many Americans, who have been doing nothing BUT building up China, for the last 30 YEARS.

Really.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Let them dig themselves out of their own hole-no help.

[jonatron]

Strike while the iron is hot.

[Starcitizen]

The Wuhan Virus might help to curb Communist Chinese ambitions of regional domination, at least for a little while.

I, for one, see this virus as a potentially good thing. As long as Communist China is spending money and resources on it, it less money and resources to spend on their military. Either the virus takes them out, or in a few years, we will need take them out militarily.

Winnie Xi Pooh is going back to follow in Mao’s footsteps.

[GOPJ]

Are you talking about Bloomberg?

[cba123]

I am talking about all the “Americans” who have been selling American companies and properties, to China for the last 30 years.

Lots, and lots, and lots of them.

Not just Bloomberg.

[mosesdapoet]

The PRCA* owns a slew of businesses who’s profits exclusively all go into directly supporting it. Most are connected to the manufacturing of military supplies but not all. *I may have the acronym wrong (Peoples Republic of China Army) but that is how they’re set up and have factories and services all over the world.