In Europe, U.S. defense secretary to call for greater effort to counter China, Russia
LONDON - U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, in his first major speech, on Friday called for a greater European focus on tackling what he called growing security and economic threats from China and Russia.
“It is increasingly clear that Russia and China want to disrupt the international order by gaining a veto over other nations’ economic, diplomatic, and security decisions,” Esper said at the Royal United Services Institute think tank in London. His comments are largely in line with his predecessors. Esper described a litany of concerns about China, from the way it uses its economic power to technology theft,
In July, Britain postponed a decision on whether Huawei could participate in building next-generation 5G mobile networks until it had a clearer picture of the impact of U.S. measures taken against the Chinese company.
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