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China using debt diplomacy to expand its influence: Pence

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Updated: Thu, Oct 04, 2018
11:22 pm
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China is using "debt diplomacy" to expand its global influence, US Vice President Mike Pence alleged on Thursday, citing example of a Sri Lankan port which he said could soon become a forward military base for Beijing's growing blue-water navy.

Pence said China was offering hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure loans to governments from Asia to Africa to Europe to even Latin America. Yet the terms of those loans are opaque at best, and the benefits flow overwhelmingly to Beijing," Pence said.

"China uses so-called 'debt diplomacy' to expand its influence," Pence alleged in a major foreign policy speech at the Hudson Institute, a top American think-tank.

"Just ask Sri Lanka, which took on massive debt to let Chinese state companies build a port with questionable commercial value. Two years ago, that country could no longer afford its payments so Beijing pressured Sri Lanka to deliver the new port directly into Chinese hands. It may soon become a forward military base for China's growing blue-water navy," Pence said.

Within the American hemisphere, Beijing has extended a lifeline to the corrupt and incompetent Maduro regime in Venezuela, pledging USD 5 billion in questionable loans that can be repaid with oil, Pence told the Washington audience.

China is also that country's single largest creditor, saddling the Venezuelan people with more than USD 50 billion in debt.

Beijing is also corrupting some nations' politics by providing direct support to parties and candidates who promise to accommodate China's strategic objectives, he said.

"Since last year, the Chinese Communist Party has convinced three Latin American nations to sever ties with Taipei and recognise Beijing. These actions threaten the stability of the Taiwan Strait and the United States of America condemns these actions," Pence said.

He said while the Trump administration will continue to respect One China Policy, as reflected in the three joint communiques and the Taiwan Relations Act, America will always believe Taiwan's embrace of democracy shows a better path for all the Chinese people.

"These are only a few of the ways that China has sought to advance its strategic interests across the world, with growing intensity and sophistication. Yet previous administrations all but ignored China's actions and in many cases, they abetted them. But those days are over," Pence asserted.

Under President Trump's leadership, the US interests have been defended with renewed American strength, he claimed.

"We've been making the strongest military in the history of the world stronger still. Earlier this year, the President signed into law the largest increase in our national defense since the days of Ronald Reagan USD 716 billion to extend our military dominance in every domain," he said.

"We're modernising our nuclear arsenal, we're fielding and developing new cutting-edge fighters and bombers, we're building a new generation of aircraft carriers and warships, and we're investing as never before in our Armed Forces.

"This includes initiating the process to establish the United States Space Force to ensure our continued dominance in space, and authorising increased capability in the cyber world to build deterrence against our adversaries," he added.

China now spends as much on its military as the rest of Asia combined, and Beijing has prioritised capabilities to erode America's military advantages on land, at sea, in the air, and in space, Pence alleged.

"China wants nothing less than to push the United States of America from the Western Pacific and attempt to prevent us from coming to the aid of our allies," he alleged.

 

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