The Biden administration must confront China in the same way as the previous administration, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday.
“For fifty years, the United States let the Chinese Communist Party run over us, destroyed millions of jobs here, stole intellectual property. They infiltrated our research institutions. All this was, frankly, under both Republican and Democratic presidents,” Pompeo said. The Faulkner Focus. “
The former secretary of state said President Biden promising to protect Americans from China “only matters to the extent that the government is willing to support her.”
“When they spied on us from a consulate in Houston, we shut it down. When they had trade practices that were unfair, we imposed tariffs on them. Every place in our livelihood took our records. That’s what they need to do,” Pompeo said.
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Pompeo’s remarks came after Biden spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time since taking office on Wednesday, outlining his government’s ‘core problems’ with China’s ‘practices, aggressive activities and abuses’, ‘thereby creating a’ clear and consistent agreement with American values ”. while discussing areas where the government believes it could be in the national interest of the United States to cooperate with Beijing, senior officials said.
In a statement Wednesday evening, the White House said Biden “shared his greetings and good wishes with the Chinese people on the occasion of the Lunar New Year.”
“President Biden reaffirmed his priorities to protect the security, prosperity, health and way of life of the American people and to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific,” said the White House. “President Biden underlined his fundamental concerns about Beijing’s coercive and unfair economic practices, the crackdown in Hong Kong, human rights violations in Xinjiang and the increasingly assertive actions in the region, including towards Taiwan.”
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Pompeo stressed the importance of the Biden government in addressing the threat from China. During his tenure with the Trump administration, he recalled instances where China attempted to undermine the United States.
“Harris, I spent two and a half years here in the United States talking to governors there and working at the state level. I went to the Wisconsin Legislature, they are trying to influence our state law. We saw what happened to Eric Swalwell in California.
“This is a full-blown attack on the United States,” said Pompeo.
Pompeo concluded that the biggest threat to the United States is the Chinese Communist Party, adding that the Biden administration must confront it “head-on” in the same way that Trump did.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.