(12 Feb 2019) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Slovakia's Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini on Tuesday while on the second leg of a five-nation European tour that will also take him to Poland, Belgium and Iceland.
The tour began in Hungary, where Pompeo made headlines after saying nations would have to consider choosing between China and Russia's influence and the United States.
Pompeo said he hoped to reverse what he called a decade of US disengagement in Central and Eastern Europe that created a vacuum Russia and China have exploited.
Over the course of the past 10 years, he said, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leaders have become much more aggressive in the region and made inroads.
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