Correspondent in Berlin
The Chinese are thieves and the Americans are liars. These are the words of birds that were exchanged this weekend between Washington and Beijing during the Munich Security Conference. This year, American representatives came in force to the Bavarian capital with no less than three ministers and a Congress delegation of around forty members. And all labels combined, regardless of Beijing's efforts to fight the coronavirus epidemic, Republicans and Democrats have exposed the threats they believe China poses to the free world.
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The strongest salvo came from Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who attacked the Communist Party dictatorship on Saturday morning. The latter “ progresses in the wrong direction and adopts aggressive military behavior. The Chinese are behaving destructively and threateningly in the region. We have to wake up, "warned the head of the
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