Mike Pompeo criticized previous US administrations for being too complacent about China.
Washington:
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday called on “free nations” to triumph over the threat of what he called a “new tyranny” from China.
“Today, China is increasingly authoritarian in its country, and more aggressive in its hostility to freedom everywhere else,” Pompeo said in a California speech that cast a harsh image of Washington’s rivalry with Beijing. .
“If the free world doesn’t change Communist China, Communist China will change us,” he told the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California.
In strident language reminiscent of the United States’ Cold War with the Soviet Union, Pompeo said that Beijing had selfishly benefited from American and Western generosity by implementing reforms and joining the global economy over the past four years. last decades.
He sharply criticized previous US administrations for being too complacent with Chinese and US companies to comply too much with anything Beijing asks of them.
And he said Beijing had broken international commitments on Hong Kong autonomy, the South China Sea and stopping state-backed intellectual property threats.
“There can be no going back to past practices just because they are comfortable or practical,” he said.
“We can no longer ignore the fundamental political and ideological differences between our countries, just as the CCP has never ignored them,” he said, referring to the Chinese Communist Party.
Pompeo said Washington ordered China to shut down its consulate in Houston, Texas this week because it has become a center of espionage and operations to illegally obtain trade secrets from U.S. companies.
“This week, we closed the Chinese consulate in Houston because it was a hub for espionage and theft of intellectual property,” he said.
“China has stolen our valuable intellectual property and trade secrets, costing millions of jobs across America.”
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