Communist China and the Free World's Future
_(cropped).jpg) Mike Pompeo delivers a speech on China policy at Richard Nixon Presidential Library | |
| Date | July 23, 2020 |
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| Time | 16:50 |
| Duration | 24 minutes |
| Venue | Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum |
| Location | Yorba Linda, California |
| Type | Policy speech |
| Participants | United States Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo |
| Footage | state.gov/ |
| Website | U.S. Department of State |
"Communist China and the Free World's Future" is a speech given by United States Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo on July 23, 2020, at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California.[1][2] In the speech, Pompeo rallied that the Free World should come together and empower the Chinese people and induce China to change.
Background[edit]
On July 21, Mike Pompeo "urged 'the entire world' to stand up to China".[3] On July 22, 2020, a day before the speech, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston, Texas, was ordered to shut operations within 72 hours by the United States government.[4] Prior to this, Pompeo was in Europe "rallying leaders to take a harder line with Beijing and meeting with exiled Chinese dissidents".[5]
Speech[edit]
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Pompeo spoke after remarks by National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, and U.S. Attorney General William Barr. Pompeo mentioned that while these remarks covered ideology, espionage, and economics, he would put it all together and "detail what the China threat means for our economy, for our liberty, and indeed for the future of free democracies around the world".[1]
Pompeo's speech brought into question 50 years of engagement between the United States and China.[2] He said that that if the world was to remain free, "the old paradigm of blind engagement with China simply won't get it done".[1] He referred to China's handling of and response to the novel coronavirus, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Chinese trade abuses, and a Chinese military that is growing "more menacing".[1][2] However, Pompeo distinguishes between the Chinese people and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) saying, "we must also engage and empower the Chinese people...a dynamic, freedom-loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party".[6][7] He said "the biggest lie is that the Chinese Communist Party speaks for 1.4 billion people who are surveilled, oppressed and scared to speak out", whereas in reality the "CCP fears the Chinese people’s honest opinions more than any foreign foe".[8][9] He also said "General Secretary Xi Jinping is a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology".[10][11] Pompeo called upon the free world to come together to induce China to change.[1]
References in the speech[edit]
Free world[edit]
Pompeo referred to the "free world" in his speech a couple of times. He referred to the struggle between the free world and communist powers like the CCP. This includes the struggle against those who want a "tributary international system where smaller countries are deferential to larger powers, instead of a rules-based international order where small countries enjoy equal rights", and the struggle against the CCP which has no regard for universal rights or open markets.[12] Pompeo said that the free world had nurtured China into a healthy economy, and in return the Chinese Communist Party was now exploiting the free world.[13]
Richard Nixon[edit]
Pompeo referred to Richard Nixon's engagement policy with China and an article in which Nixon had written in relation to China which said, "the world cannot be safe until China changes" and that America's "goal should be to induce change".[14][15] Pompeo also referred to Nixon's reference of the CCP having become a "Frankenstein".[16]
Soviet Union[edit]
Pompeo said that some of the mistakes the Soviet Union had made in the past were now being made by the CCP. He also made some differentiation between the Soviet Union and the CCP, such as the greater integration of China in the global scenario.[1] Pompeo also referred to President Ronald Reagan's usage of the phrase "trust, but verify" for the Soviet Union, and put forward a variation that should be used for the CCP: "distrust and verify".[17][18]
Chinese dissidents[edit]
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Pompeo referenced Nathan Law, Wei Jingsheng, and Wang Dan in his speech.[9] Both Wei and Wang were present in the audience and Pompeo requested them to make their presence known. Pompeo called Wei Jingsheng the "father of the Chinese democracy movement" and Wang Dan, a Tiananmen Square [massacre] survivor, as "a key student who has never stopped fighting for freedom for the Chinese people". Pompeo said that in the past US leaders had all too often "ignored or downplayed the words of brave Chinese dissidents who warned us about the nature of the regime we're facing" and that US engagement with dissidents was going to increase.[19][8]
Hollywood[edit]
Pompeo stated that Hollywood, "the epicenter of American creative freedom, and self-appointed arbiters of social justice – self-censors even the most mildly unfavorable reference to China."[20]
Reactions[edit]
China's response to the speech was considered as "surprisingly mild" by James Palmer in the Foreign Policy.[21] This milder response was attributed to "recent diplomatic disasters" by China.[21] Hua Chunying, a senior Chinese diplomat and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, tweeted that Pompeo showed by his speech that "he wants to present himself as the John Foster Dulles of the 21st century, launching a new crusade against China in a globalized world. What he is doing is as futile as an ant trying to shake a tree". She continued, "It's about time that all peace-loving people around the world stepped forward to prevent him from doing the world more harm".[22]
Hugh Hewitt, president of the Richard Nixon Foundation, said that "this was a speech that will be seen as pivotal by foreign policy historians for years to come".[20] Richard N. Haass noted in his article titled, "What Mike Pompeo doesn't understand about China, Richard Nixon and U.S. foreign policy" and published in The Washington Post, that Pompeo made numerous misrepresentations of history in his speech and failed to suggest a path forward.[23] Thomas Wright, in his Brookings article titled "Pompeo's Surreal Speech on China", compared statements of Pompeo to that of Matthew Pottinger's. He also said that while Pompeo invoked the free world, nothing was said of the free world or the trouble it was in.[12] Wright ended by quoting Kelly Magsamen of the Center for American Progress, "Rather than organizing U.S. foreign policy purely around competition with China we should be organizing it around our democratic allies with the goal of strengthening and catalyzing the free world".[12] Scott Kennedy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies commented, "How do you form a united front against China when the U.S. is bullying its allies, trashing multilateral institutions and pushing an economic decoupling (from China) that no one else supports?"[17]
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Pompeo, Michael R. (2020-07-23). "Communist China and the Free World's Future". state.gov. United States Department of State. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Choi, Matthew (23 July 2020). "Pompeo: U.S. engagement with China has failed". Politico. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Mike Pompeo urges 'entire world' to stand up to China". Hindustan Times. Agence France-Presse. 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Gaouette, Nicole; Salama, Vivian; Atwood, Kylie (23 July 2020). "US move to shut China's Houston consulate draws questions about political motives". CNN. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Griffiths, James; Gaouette, Nicole (23 July 2020). "US orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston". CNN. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Delaney, Robert (2020-07-24). "Pompeo urges China's citizens to help change Beijing's 'behaviour'". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Raj, Yashwant (2020-07-24). "US abandons China appeasement policy, outsources hostilities". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 Greber, Jacob (2020-07-23). "Pompeo unleashes on China, urges West to 'change' the Communist Party". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 2020-07-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 O’Keeffe, Kate; Mauldin, William (2020-07-24). "Mike Pompeo Urges Chinese People to Change Communist Party". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-07-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Churchill, Owen (2020-07-25). "US officials now call Xi Jinping 'general secretary' instead of China's 'president' – but why?". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
- ↑ Re, Gregg (2020-07-23). "Pompeo announces end of 'blind engagement' with communist China: 'Distrust but verify'". Fox News. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Wright, Thomas (2020-07-27). "Pompeo's surreal speech on China". Brookings. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ Hansler, Jennifer (24 July 2020). "Pompeo blasts Beijing as deadline nears for China to shutter Houston consulate". CNN. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Pompeo Echoes Nixon's Words: 'World Cannot Be Safe Until China Changes'". Eurasia Review. 2020-07-24. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ Nixon, Richard M. (October 1967). "Asia After Viet Nam". Foreign Affairs. Vol. 46 no. 1. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Brunnstrom, David; Psaledakis, Daphne (2020-07-24). "Pompeo urges more assertive approach to 'Frankenstein' China". Reuters. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 17.0 17.1 Raj, Yashwant (2020-07-25). "Distrust and verify: US ups ante against China". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Fang, Alex; Moriyasu, Ken (24 July 2020). "Distrust and verify: Pompeo refits Cold War slogan for China". Nikkei Asian Review. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "US seeks new 'alliance of democracies' to take on authoritarian Chinese regime: Pompeo - The Economic Times". Economic Times (Mobile). PTI. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 20.0 20.1 Hewitt, Hugh (25 July 2020). "Opinion | Pompeo's speech opens a bold new chapter in U.S.-China relations". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 21.0 21.1 Palmer, James (29 July 2020). "Why China Isn't Taking Pompeo's Bait". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2020-07-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "'An ant trying to shake a tree': China takes low blow at Pompeo for warning world of Beijing's 'aggression'". Times Now News. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Haass, Richard (25 July 2020). "Opinion | What Mike Pompeo doesn't understand about China, Richard Nixon and U.S. foreign policy". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-07-30. Unknown parameter
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