Posted on 12/20/2019 8:22:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
China’s people want to live in a free society and do not support the ruling Communist Party, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
Additionally, current foreign policy is not aimed at decoupling the United States economically from China but in making sure Beijing competes fairly in the global economic arena, Mr. Pompeo said in an interview with The Washington Times on Wednesday.
Mr. Pompeo, a former congressman from Kansas who earlier held the post of CIA director, also said he has no immediate plans to step down and run for the open Senate seat in his home state next year.
“I’m going to stay here as long as President Trump will have me here and that’s my intention,” he said.
The secretary, in a concise review of the past year, said he has made progress in improving training for Foreign Service officers, in boosting U.S. support for Israel, and in implementing the pressure campaign against Iran aimed at limiting the proliferation of nuclear arms and ending Tehran’s global terror campaigns, while reducing threats to the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
“We also made real progress this year in informing the world of the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party,” he said. “We were asleep at the switch for a couple of decades as this threat continued to grow, and I think President Trump set the conditions where we could go speak around the world and talk to our colleagues around the world to demonstrate to them that — while there’s enormous opportunity to sell goods in China and to create good things for the Chinese people — that the Chinese Communist Party presents real risks, and to begin to think materially, concretely, substantively about how to respond to it.”
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Hope and prayers.
Pompeo 2024.
Just saying. :)
Now if we can get Americans to fully reject the ruling Communist Party in the House and their Presidential nutjob nominee (whomever that will be).
He is supposed to stop making stupid & provocative remark.
I hope they start carrying American flags enchanting for Trump
In phone call with Trump, China’s Xi says U.S. interfering in internal affairs
Why, and according to whom? How are his comments that?
Undoubtably true. But it takes a lot more than this to get a dictatorship out of power
Bannon thinks China is really close to the edge.
He compares it to Vietnam where we repeatedly had them an inch from surrender then backed off.
Let’s hope Trump keeps the pressure on and this new China deal is not a gigantic cave-like everyone keeps repeating over and over and over again.
China didn’t really end the old Mandarin bureaucracy.
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The Communist party became the new ruling class.
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It will stay in power as long as it has the “mandate of heaven”.
True. But China's 'elites' want them to live under their thumb - just like our 'elites' want us under theirs...
“Why, and according to whom? How are his comments that?”
He’s a consistent ChiCom apologist.
“It will stay in power as long as it has the “mandate of heaven”.”
Mandate of Hell more like it.
A China led by others could be even more powerful than under the current leaders.
We learned nothing from Iraq, apparently.
Somethings happening here.
What it is, ain’t exactly clear...
That. Also while I am not a fan of Chinese regime it is not a proper diplomatic language vis-a-vis a country US is not at war with. Pompeo better start with Communists back hope and let the Chinese people deal with theirs.
back hope=back home
Well well well, looks like Hong Kong is ‘rubbing’ off on the Chinese mainland.
“Pompeo 2024.”
My thoughts as well.
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