Former Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo has confronted the Biden administration China ‘front-on’ in the same way as the previous government.
“For 50 years, the United States allowed the Chinese Communist Party to run all over us, destroying millions of jobs here, they stole intellectual property. They infiltrated our research institutions. It was all honestly under Republican and Democratic presidents,” Pompeo said. said: “The Faulkner Focus.”
The former foreign minister said President Biden had promised to protect Americans from China, “only to the extent that the government is willing to support it.”
“When they spied on us from a consulate in Houston, we closed it. When they had unfair trade practices, we charged them tariffs. Our administration took every place in our livelihoods. That’s what they needed. “to do,” Pompeo said.
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Pompeo’s remarks come after Biden spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday for the first time since taking office, outlining the government’s’ core concerns’ with China’s’ practices, aggressive activities and abuse ‘, which’ a ‘clear and consistent subscription to US values’ ‘While talking about areas where the government believes it may be in the United States’ national interest to work with Beijing, senior officials said.
The White House said in a statement on Wednesday night that Biden “shared his greetings and wishes with the Chinese people during the new lunar year.”
“President Biden has reaffirmed his priorities for protecting the security, prosperity, health and way of life of the American people and for preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific Ocean,” the White House said. “President Biden has highlighted his fundamental concerns about Beijing’s coercive and unfair economic practices, repression in Hong Kong, human rights violations in Xinjiang and increasingly assertive action in the region, including against Taiwan.”
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Pompeo stresses the importance of the Biden government in addressing China’s threat. During his tenure with the Trump administration, he recalled cases of China trying to undermine the United States.
‘Harris, I’ve been talking to governors and working at the state level for two and a half years here in the United States. I went to the legislature in Wisconsin and tried to influence our state legislatures. We saw what happened to Eric Swalwell in California.
“This is a complete attack on the United States,” Pompeo said.
Pompeo concluded that the Chinese Communist Party was the biggest threat to the United States, adding that the Biden government should confront it ‘front-on’ in the same way that Trump did.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.