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.@SecPompeo: If we want a free 21st century, blind engagement won’t get it done. We must not continue it.
The free world must triumph over this new tyranny.
#CCP #China
The free world must triumph over this new tyranny.
#CCP #China
.@SecPompeo: Corporate acquiescence to the #CCP is commonplace.
#CCP regime is a Marxist-Leninist regime. Xi is a true believer in this ideology.
Act not on basis of what Chinese leaders say, but how they behave.
“We must distrust, but verify.”
#CCP regime is a Marxist-Leninist regime. Xi is a true believer in this ideology.
Act not on basis of what Chinese leaders say, but how they behave.
“We must distrust, but verify.”
.@SecPompeo: The purpose of the People’s Liberation Army PLA is to preserve the absolute rule of the Chinese Communist Party elites, not protect the Chinese people.
We’ve stopped 8 years of cheeck-turning in the South China Sea.
We’ve stopped 8 years of cheeck-turning in the South China Sea.
.@SecPompeo: In my experience, communists almost always lie.
The biggest lie, is that they speak for all of China’s people.
The biggest lie, is that they speak for all of China’s people.
.@SecPompeo: I reject the notion that we are living in an age of inevitability.
Our approach is not destined to fail.
Free world is still winning, we just need to believe it.
Our approach is not destined to fail.
Free world is still winning, we just need to believe it.
.@SecPompeo: Challenge of #China demands exertion, energy from democracies.
If we don’t act now, the #CCP will subvert our rules-based order.
Sec. Pompeo calls for a new alliance of democracies.
If we don’t act now, the #CCP will subvert our rules-based order.
Sec. Pompeo calls for a new alliance of democracies.
Bottom line, as far as I can tell, the U.S. policy going forward is:
• "Distrust and* verify."
• Engage the Chinese people directly.
• Build alliances with rules-based order countries.
Frankly this sounds like an excellent prescription for dealing with the #CCP.
*CORRECTED
• "Distrust and* verify."
• Engage the Chinese people directly.
• Build alliances with rules-based order countries.
Frankly this sounds like an excellent prescription for dealing with the #CCP.
*CORRECTED
.@SecPompeo: When American media pick up #CCP media storylines and run them as is, they are propagating Chinese communist party propaganda.
“The free world must triumph over this new tyranny,”
@SecPompeo said, that it's the “mission of our time.”
“The only way to truly change Communist China is to act not on the basis of what Chinese leaders say, but how they behave,” he said. By @CathyHe_ET
theepochtimes.com/nations-must-c…
@SecPompeo said, that it's the “mission of our time.”
“The only way to truly change Communist China is to act not on the basis of what Chinese leaders say, but how they behave,” he said. By @CathyHe_ET
theepochtimes.com/nations-must-c…
This is another speech (I guess the last in the series following O'Brien, Wray & Barr) I recommend reading *in full*: "Communist China and the Free World’s Future" @SecPompeo
state.gov/communist-chin…
state.gov/communist-chin…
