Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday vowed to ramp up pressure on China on multiple fronts, calling Beijing \u201ctruly hostile\u201d to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the latest hawkish take on China by President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, Pompeo said he would deliver a series of speeches in coming months laying out cases against Beijing on areas from ideology to trade to its efforts for influence within the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pompeo highlighted China\u2019s clampdown on Hong Kong protests and incarceration of Uighur Muslims and said Beijing was seeking international domination–implicitly rejecting US experts who argued that the communist leaders are fundamentally pragmatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party is offering its people and the world an entirely different model of governance it\u2019s one in which a Leninist party rules and everyone must think and act according to the will of the Communist elites,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At a dinner attended by Henry Kissinger, the apostle of realpolitik who negotiated US normalisation of ties with Beijing, Pompeo said Washington had long been too easy on China in hopes that it would transform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe hesitated and did far less than we should have when China threatened its neighbours like Vietnam and the Philippines and when they claimed the entire South China Sea,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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