Posted on 07/06/2021 8:47:44 PM PDT by eekitsagreek
Speaking at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, on July 23, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attempted a difficult balancing act. On the one hand, Pompeo repudiated more than four decades of American policy toward China. Pompeo argued that the days of the U.S. holding out hope for political liberalization was over. And he called on free nations around the world to lock arms against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) various schemes and threats.
On the other hand, Pompeo said he did not want to “seem too eager to tear down President Nixon’s legacy.” While Nixon’s presidency ended in disgrace, he is still widely considered something of a foreign policy success—the man who initiated America’s great opening to China. Pompeo didn’t want to directly undermine Nixon’s supposed accomplishment. “I want to be clear that he did what he believed was best for the American people at the time, and he may well have been right,” Pompeo said of Nixon’s diplomacy with the Chinese.
Pompeo’s use of the word “may” was telling. Maybe Nixon was right—or maybe he wasn’t. Given the substance of his speech, it is quite possible that Pompeo thinks Nixon was wrong.
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Any possible economic benefit ( If there was any ) from off shoring to China was wiped out in 1 year by the WuFlu Plandemic. If you are against industrial repatriation and no for protective tariffs at this point what will it take? If this describes yo then yo are an anti American Free Traitor and I wish you would go live in China.
I would guess half of Free Republic posters are die hard Free Traitors., pro China and anti tariff.
Free Traitor right wingers made a lot of money selling out the US workforce to China. F them all.
Never forget...
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