Pompeo warns against Chinese, Russian influence on European tour
18 August 2020 |
11:00 am
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged the Czech Republic not to team up with Russia and China on energy policy. During a visit to Prague, he called the recent Belarus unrest a sign of creeping "authoritarianism."
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