Pompeo warns against China, Russia on eve of Berlin Wall anniversary
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
US Secretary of State MikePompeoonFriday issued a stark warningagainstChinaandRussiaontheeveof the 30thanniversaryof the fall of theBerlinWall.
"Western, free nations have a responsibility to deter threats to our people" from governments likeChina,Russiaand Iran,Pompeosaid, speaking just a few metres (yards) away from where theWallran past the German capital's world-famous Brandenburg Gate.
The US and its allies should "defend what was so hard-won... in 1989" and "recognise we are in a competition of values with unfree nations," he added.
Picking at sore spots in Washington's relationship withBerlin,Pompeosaid the under-construction Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline fromRussiato Germany would mean "Europe's energy supplies… dependon(Russian President Vladimir) Putin's whims".
Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeatedly said the pipeline is a purely private business concern.
And he warned of "Chinese companies' intent to build 5G networks", after the German government failed to exclude tech giant Huawei from the bidding process for the next-generation mobile network infrastructure.
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Pompeoisona whirlwind two-day tour of Germany where he has revisited the site of his Cold War military serviceonthe former Iron Curtain border and is slated to meet leaders including Merkel.
While in Europe, he has looked to shore up transatlantic relations eroded by trade conflicts and discord over geopolitical crises and military spending.
Spurred by the US leaving the way open to Turkish and Russian military action in northern Syria, France's President Emmanuel Macron told The Economist this week that the NATO alliance,of which Ankara is also a member,was suffering a "brain death" of lack of coordination between Europe and Washington.
Recalling past "challenges between partners" within NATO, including France's 1960s departure from the alliance's command structure,PompeoonFriday dismissed the debate around Macron's comments as a "kerfuffle".
Other leaders including Merkel, NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have also firmly rejected Macron's assessment.