Posted on 09/28/2020 8:21:17 PM PDT by caww
In an interview with Mark Levin on Sunday on Fox News's Life, Liberty, and Levin, Pompeo discussed the Trump administration's approach to foreign policy with a focus on its adversaries and discussed China's growing influence.
"I think political leadership has failed the American people in this regard for many, many years, misunderstanding what it was that the Chinese Communist Party has as its intention," Pompeo said. "In America, sometimes we discount these things. Just listen to what General Secretary Xi Jinping says, and you can predict and watch what the Chinese actions are likely to be."
Pompeo also disagreed with how the U.S. has handled its relationship with China since President Richard Nixon first opened up trade with the country in the 1970s.
"We were pushing back against essentially 50 years of U.S. policy with respect to China, since Nixon and Kissinger had gone to Beijing back in the early 1970s, where there was the theory of the case was if we just do more business with them, if we open up, they’ll become less hostile, less hegemonic in their desires and less authoritarian internally. That failed," Pompeo said.
Pompeo added that the first step to combat China is to discuss its threat openly, a move he believes the administration has been successful in doing.
"We have now begun to build out this global coalition to push back," Pompeo said. "It will take years. We sat on this for five decades. It will take years to accomplish this, but we have turned the corner. I believe that the tide has turned in terms of the recognition of the threat that this authoritarian regime in China presents."
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GHWB was the best friend China ever had.
If Biden gets in all it will take is a $1.5 Billion donation to Hunter and all will reversed.
Pompeo 2024. He understands the threat.
I almost hate to agree with you on this, but I COMPLETELY agree.
Everybody, literally everyone, has been 100% sold out to China.
Both parties. Everybody.
For more than thirty years.
Trump is the FIRST guy starting to push back.
Pompeo, the second.
He deserves a huge amount of credit, also.
Nothing like a good plague to up the ante
Not here at FR... At least not in the last two (2) decades...
FR has been at the forefront of eye-balling the chicoms and the threat they pose...
A great FR intellectual wrote extensively (both fiction & non-fiction) in the late 90's and early 2000's predicting the recent major expansion of chicom sea-power and the regional and international threat it poses...
Unfortunately, as was also the case for Bastiat, Patton, Churchill, Rand, Buckley, and Reagan, most people have always listened to threats and just shrugged and said: "What... Me worry?"
I was pulling what was left of my hair out when I first saw those fortress islands they were building and we didn’t say a freaking word about it! All of our cash for clunker cars that got glued up and sent to China to build their navy and tanks!!! And we didn’t say a freaking word about it!
Trump and Pompeo will have their work cut out for them. The Chinese have got their hooks embedded deep into every aspect of the U.S. In fact there was recently an excellent article pointing out that there was now a powerful “China Party” that comprised both left and right, Republican and Democrat, tech, finance, manufacturing and government, all with keen interests in doing business with China and willing to overlook strategic and moral aspects.
Bfl
“A great FR intellectual wrote extensively (both fiction & non-fiction) in the late 90’s and early 2000’s predicting the recent major expansion of chicom sea-power and the regional and international threat it poses...”
Jeff Head. He won’t be with us much longer, I’m afraid.
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Five Decades My Ass
Our insane policies with China did not start in 1972.
It started about twenty years later when the powers that be
decided to betray the United States in the interest of
lining their own pockets.
Now that everything has come true that I and other
protectionists predicted would take place, they seek to
extend the period of blame back to 1972. That’s B. S.
It gives cover the the real culprits from 1989 to 1992, when
terrible decisions were being made, and then doubled down
on over and over.
This angers me. Nixon wasn’t anyone’s favorite, but he was
not the betrayer of our nation, that the leaders in the
1992 time frame were.
This IS NOT Nixon’s fault.
Our trade deficits with China in 1985 was $6 MILLION dollars
From there it went up up up:
1992: $18.3 billion
1997: $49.7 billion
2002: $103.1 billion
2007: $258.5 billion
2012: $315.1 billion
2017: $375.2 billion
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
Didn’t I see a post “It’s CHINA Stupid!” recently?
Then-VP Biden toasts China's XI. "Here’s why I’m toasting this Chink. My view for many years is that a rising China is a positive development, and that the Biden family can become billionaires as long as we Democrats force American taxpayers to invest in Beijing’s success. Some anti-globalists see China’s growth as a threat, entertaining visions of a cold-war-style rivalry or great-power confrontation. Other Chinks worry that our aim in the Asia-Pacific is to contain China’s rise,” Biden wrote. “I reject these views. “I remain convinced that a successful China can make our country more prosperous, not less,” he added.
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(h/t Greenfield)
Yet, underneath all the Biden sucking-up rhetoric about the ennobling virtues of globalism was some very parochial and familial profiteering. In 2013, Joe and his son Hunter Biden flew on Air Force Two to China. China’s BHR Partners was founded that year and included Hunter Biden as a board member. The Delaware Board of Trade was incorporated in 2013. Despite its name, the DBOT was not a government agency, but a penny stock startup which received a $3 million loan from New Castle County.
After Joe's wet kiss to XI, the big Chinese partner in the BHR arrangement was Harvest Fund Management which, coincidentally enough, in 2012 was targeting Hollywood with an $800 million investment fund. That same year, you could find Bruno Wu, who had been working with Harvest, and Chris Dodd, along with Harvey Weinstein, playing roles at the Asian Film Summit in Toronto.
And the money didn’t just go one way. The Delaware Board of Trade was incorporated in 2013.
Despite its name, the DBOT was not a government agency, but a penny stock startup which received a $3 million loan from New Castle County. (Delaware is Joe Biden’s home state which he repped as a US Senator.)
New Castle County had approved the issue of $15 million in revenue bonds to fund the DBOT “stock exchange” by touting the “globally recognized leaders in the financial services industry” running it. DBOT’s founders included people with experience in stock exchanges and financial services, and Dennis Toner, who was described as a “top aide to Vice President Joe Biden.”
Toner, Biden’s deputy chief of staff, is in the news for denying that Tara Reade ever told him anything. Reade’s decision to tell Toner and Ted Kaufman was a pretty poor one. Both are longtime Biden men and considered as close to the boss as family. And they’ve reaped the benefits of that closeness.
After Obama won, Ted Kaufman was temporarily appointed to the Senate. If there was anything odd about appointing a Biden advisor to sit in the Senate, it became odder when Senator Kaufman delivered the opening statement in favor of Toner’s appointment as Post Office Governor, by vouching for his “loyalty” working for Joe Biden. Tara Reade might as well have taken her complaint to Biden, as to Toner and Kaufman. The current New Castle County exec has since called DBOT’s founders criminals and threatened to sue after the company was disposed of as a “distressed asset” in exchange for shares of Ideanomics. Ideanomics is a Chinese crypto company trading as a penny stock and the software that served as collateral for the loan has been described as worthless. The chairman of Ideanomics is Wu.
The manager of DBOT-I LLC was listed as John Hynansky. The car dealer is a Biden pal with extensive Ukrainian ties who had lent Biden’s shady brother half a million dollars and had received $20 million in government loans to start a Porsche luxury car dealership in the Ukraine. Biden’s vaunted foreign policy expertise has consisted of sucking up to broker deals between Biden family members, donors, and foreign interests. These deals haven’t been good for America, but they’ve worked out very well for members of Biden's crooked family, as well as assorted donors, camp followers, and the local boys.
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But Biden's biggest deal was helping broker the Chinese takeover of the American entertainment industry. Xi’s visit to Los Angeles hit on all the right cultural notes. He schmoozed Hollywood bigwigs and their errand boys, like Dodd and Biden, he watched a Lakers game, and cheered Obama’s 100,000 Strong China initiative to have a hundred thousand American students study in the Communist dictatorship.
“I can say with confidence my visit has been a full success,” Xi declared.
In China, culture serves the agenda of the Communist government. Unlike the Russians, who struggled vainly to stem the impact of American culture, their Chinese counterparts decided to control it at the source. Biden was a key figure in negotiating the terms on which the PRC would control Hollywood.
In 1962, the Manchurian Candidate depicted an effort by Communists in China, Russia, and elsewhere to kidnap and brainwash American soldiers. The modern remake replaced the Communists with a corporation and the Chinese doctor with a South African geneticist. China could not be offended. While Biden, Katzenberg, and Xi were partying at the Marriot, human rights protesters were calling for freedom, and being arrested by the henchmen of a one-party Democrat city and state for their trouble.
Even while Biden was falsely claiming that the Hollywood sellout would improve human rights in China, the rise of China was already violating human rights in America. Now, as Chinese drones fly over American cities, police stalk empty streets, social media monopolies monitor every single phone, and Democrat officials dismiss the Bill of Rights while locking up millions of people, our rights are gone. And Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate who long ago sold out the country he now seeks to rule.
Silicon Valley dominates the media by owning much of it but why would Silicon Valley use its influence on behalf of China when it comes to reporting the news about, for example, Corona 19? As with all of the tentacles of China insinuated into the Democrat party and our institutions, one often comes upon an epiphany by following the money.
Google and the rest of them want the Chinese market as much as the NBA wants the Chinese market. So the NBA whores after China, looks the other way from Hong Kong or China's concentration camps and sells sneakers and seats at ballgames. Google, perhaps more sophisticated, nevertheless contributes technology with which the CCP oppresses its people.
So we followed the money in these examples and we learned a lot. I was sitting here trying to make a list of all of our institutions which through cupidity and even venality have compromised our national security.
That list already includes the players who are shaping the votes in this election. The list is long and scary.
I hardly think it is just Democrats.
Both parties, have been selling us out, for the last THIRTY YEARS.
Both parties.
Everyone. Trump is the first to say “stop”.
In 30 years.
I think they’re full of it; Red China was a desirable trade partner because the population was enslaved. Western companies and governments could profit from a huge incarcerated population of workers with none of the rights of Western citizens.
They knew what they were doing.
It looks like the Deep State goes all the way down to China.
Quite right.
Trump is utterly transforming the Republican Party and I think I can make a case that Republicans who can be identified as "never Tumpers" are invariably identified with Chinese interests or those who profit from a Bush/Democrat policy concerning China. As to those Republicans who maintain a pro-Trump public face but are undermining like termites wherever they can, I believe there is also a China connection which would be revealed if the money is followed.
Therefore we have a new Republican Party as it has been transformed by Trump, at least in its public face, supporting those policies that cost these institutions and interests money, thus explaining why these institutions align against Trump.
If Trump has realigned the Republican Party to favor the working middle class at the cost of, for example, Wall Street, the Democrat party has eagerly increased its affiliation with Wall Street and other Chinese favored institutions.
The interesting thing is to see how the threads interweave on the Democrat side to enlist, for example, Hollywood on the same side as big Wall Street when it used to make populist movies attacking Wall Street greed.
Following the money answers the motivation and postmodern ideology explains how it is all so glibly rationalized.
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