https://www.wsj.com/articles/secretary-of-state-pompeo-to-urge-chinese-people-to-change-the-communist-party-11595517729?mod=hp_lead_pos6 WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is calling on the Chinese people to alter the ruling Communist Party’s direction in a speech explaining the Trump administration’s full-throttled response to an assertive China. According to a draft of the speech, to be delivered Thursday afternoon, Mr. Pompeo says Chinese leader Xi Jinping is a “true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology.” Mr. Pompeo stops shy of explicitly calling for regime change, urging allied countries and the people of China to work with the U.S. to change the Communist Party’s behavior. The Communist Party “fears the Chinese people’s honest opinions more than any foreign foe,” Mr. Pompeo plans to say in the speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. The U.S. “must also engage and empower the Chinese people,” Mr. Pompeo says, according to the draft. The speech, called “Communist China and the Free World’s Future,” caps a series of addresses by senior officials in recent weeks focusing on what the Trump administration sees as the challenge posed by China and its expanding global reach. The uncompromising rhetoric has been accompanied by an uptick in administration pressure on Beijing—from sanctions to military exercises and indictments—as relations between the countries spiral downward to the lowest point in decades. This week, the administration took the unprecedented move of ordering China to close its consulate in Houston by Friday afternoon, accusing it and other Chinese diplomatic missions of economic espionage and visa fraud. Beijing has vowed to retaliate, adding a new front to a growing list of conflicts over trade, technology and global influence. Mr. Pompeo, in an interview ahead of the speech, said any possible retaliation to the Houston consulate closure would be up to Beijing. He portrayed the U.S. step as necessary for national security and to prevent the theft of intellectual property from sensitive energy and health-care businesses in the Houston area. “We are now decades into America not responding to Chinese aggression,” he said, describing U.S. policy as an effort to restore balance to a relationship the administration sees as unfairly tilted toward Beijing. Mr. Pompeo criticized Beijing for restricting U.S. diplomats in China and preventing them from meeting with members of the legislature and others. “This is the kind of absence of reciprocity that President Trump simply has said is unacceptable,” he said. The administration’s heightened focus on Beijing dovetails with a tough-on-China message in President Trump’s re-election campaign, similar to the one in his 2016 bid. As president, while his administration has moved to challenge Beijing, Mr. Trump has sometimes avoided confronting Mr. Xi, playing down differences or human-rights concerns. That was especially so during trade negotiations that ended in a limited deal that requires China to increase purchases of U.S. farm products and energy. Mr. Pompeo, in the interview, said confronting China was a long-term policy for the president as well as a bipartisan priority for Congress, which has overwhelmingly passed legislation allowing for Chinese sanctions. “Look, the American people are not going to allow our economic work, our talent to be stolen by the Chinese Communist Party,” he said. Many world leaders have criticized the Trump administration’s foreign policy as unilateralist. But in recent weeks, Washington has seen key allies embrace its harder-edged approach to China. That effort has been boosted by Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, its crackdown on civil liberties in Hong Kong, the mass detention of Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang and its recent confrontation with neighboring India on their Himalayan border. This month, the U.K. announced it will bar equipment made by Chinese company Huawei Technologies Co. from the country’s 5G telecommunications networks following intense lobbying by the U.S., which says the company poses security risks. Huawei denies it does so. India cited similar cybersecurity concerns last month in banning dozens of Chinese mobile apps, including social media platforms TikTok and WeChat, after the border clash with Chinese troops left 20 Indian soldiers dead. In the draft speech, Mr. Pompeo urges like-minded countries to exert coordinated pressure on the Chinese Communist Party. “We, the free nations of the world, must induce change in the CCP’s behavior in more creative and assertive ways, because Beijing’s actions threaten our people and our prosperity,” he plans to say, referring to the initials for the Chinese Communist Party. “The Politburo can’t be sweet-talked into change.” Write to Kate O’Keeffe at [email protected] and William Mauldin at [email protected]
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is calling on the Chinese people to alter the ruling Communist Party’s direction in a speech explaining the Trump administration’s full-throttled response to an assertive China.
According to a draft of the speech, to be delivered Thursday afternoon, Mr. Pompeo says Chinese leader Xi Jinping is a “true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology.” Mr. Pompeo stops shy of explicitly calling for regime change, urging allied countries and the people of China to work with the U.S. to change the Communist Party’s behavior.
The Communist Party “fears the Chinese people’s honest opinions more than any foreign foe,” Mr. Pompeo plans to say in the speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. The U.S. “must also engage and empower the Chinese people,” Mr. Pompeo says, according to the draft.
The speech, called “Communist China and the Free World’s Future,” caps a series of addresses by senior officials in recent weeks focusing on what the Trump administration sees as the challenge posed by China and its expanding global reach. The uncompromising rhetoric has been accompanied by an uptick in administration pressure on Beijing—from sanctions to military exercises and indictments—as relations between the countries spiral downward to the lowest point in decades.
This week, the administration took the unprecedented move of ordering China to close its consulate in Houston by Friday afternoon, accusing it and other Chinese diplomatic missions of economic espionage and visa fraud. Beijing has vowed to retaliate, adding a new front to a growing list of conflicts over trade, technology and global influence.
Mr. Pompeo, in an interview ahead of the speech, said any possible retaliation to the Houston consulate closure would be up to Beijing. He portrayed the U.S. step as necessary for national security and to prevent the theft of intellectual property from sensitive energy and health-care businesses in the Houston area. “We are now decades into America not responding to Chinese aggression,” he said, describing U.S. policy as an effort to restore balance to a relationship the administration sees as unfairly tilted toward Beijing.
Mr. Pompeo criticized Beijing for restricting U.S. diplomats in China and preventing them from meeting with members of the legislature and others. “This is the kind of absence of reciprocity that President Trump simply has said is unacceptable,” he said.
The administration’s heightened focus on Beijing dovetails with a tough-on-China message in President Trump’s re-election campaign, similar to the one in his 2016 bid.
As president, while his administration has moved to challenge Beijing, Mr. Trump has sometimes avoided confronting Mr. Xi, playing down differences or human-rights concerns. That was especially so during trade negotiations that ended in a limited deal that requires China to increase purchases of U.S. farm products and energy.
Mr. Pompeo, in the interview, said confronting China was a long-term policy for the president as well as a bipartisan priority for Congress, which has overwhelmingly passed legislation allowing for Chinese sanctions. “Look, the American people are not going to allow our economic work, our talent to be stolen by the Chinese Communist Party,” he said.
Many world leaders have criticized the Trump administration’s foreign policy as unilateralist. But in recent weeks, Washington has seen key allies embrace its harder-edged approach to China. That effort has been boosted by Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, its crackdown on civil liberties in Hong Kong, the mass detention of Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang and its recent confrontation with neighboring India on their Himalayan border.
This month, the U.K. announced it will bar equipment made by Chinese company Huawei Technologies Co. from the country’s 5G telecommunications networks following intense lobbying by the U.S., which says the company poses security risks. Huawei denies it does so.
India cited similar cybersecurity concerns last month in banning dozens of Chinese mobile apps, including social media platforms TikTok and WeChat, after the border clash with Chinese troops left 20 Indian soldiers dead.
In the draft speech, Mr. Pompeo urges like-minded countries to exert coordinated pressure on the Chinese Communist Party.
“We, the free nations of the world, must induce change in the CCP’s behavior in more creative and assertive ways, because Beijing’s actions threaten our people and our prosperity,” he plans to say, referring to the initials for the Chinese Communist Party. “The Politburo can’t be sweet-talked into change.”
Write to Kate O’Keeffe at [email protected] and William Mauldin at [email protected]
美国啥时候官方表态过寻求改变中国政权？
问题是把包子换掉，换上其他人就一定比包子强吗？说不定更左呢。
你行你上
美国啥时候把人民和政府混为一谈？ 一直公开表态都是把人民和政府分开，你想说啥？
同意这个，政治体制要改革，极权迫害自由。
你确定这些更换足够有用？
什么意思，中国只出生不死人？那现在人口早爆炸了
美国前些年踢了萨达姆，现在伊拉克好象也还不咋滴
不明白你在说啥。 中美建交之后美国啥事后公开说过要寻求改变中国政权(就是中华人民共和国政府)？
踏踏实实把疫情搞好，争取连任之后，说话才有分量。否则人都会认为是为了选举而挑事儿的。
伊拉克战争后，不仅GDP比战前增长了数倍，而人口也是“暴增”。伊拉克的战前人口只有2400万，但到2018年底，伊拉克的人口已达3900多万。
https://dy.163.com/article/EQLGK5IK0529LIV6.html
我在其他贴写了：
美国如果真的要快准狠，命令所有美国公司从中国进口每半年减半，超出的加100%关税，3年后中美贸易停止。川普太软弱，只是一点点产品加关税隔靴搔袜。
本来想说中国要快准狠，没有fda approve的口罩一律不可以出口美国。美国多关几个季度，每个季度几trillion债务，到时候利息都占政府收入一大笔了，没钱维持军事了。可是美国民众自己都不愿意戴口罩，中国啥都不需要做。。。
要是能成就好了