BERLIN - Russia slays political opponents and China's tactics would be 'horrifyingly familiar' to former East Germans, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday, describing free nations as being in a 'competition of values' with unfree nations. In a speech in Berlin on the lessons of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Pompeo said 'the West - all of us - lost our way in the afterglow of that proud moment.' 'We thought could divert our resources away from alliances, and our militaries. We were wrong,' he said. 'Today, Russia – led by a former KGB officer once stationed in Dresden ‒ invades its neighbours and slays political opponents,' he said. 'In China, the Chinese Communist Party is shaping a new vision of authoritarianism.' 'Let's stand together in unity,' he concluded. 'Let's stand together as allies.'
