The Biden government has to face China “head-on” in the same way as the previous government did, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday.
“For 50 years, the United States allowed the Chinese Communist Party to get over us, destroyed millions of jobs here, they stole intellectual property. They infiltrated our research institutions. All of that, frankly, was under Republican presidents and Democrats, “Pompeo told” The Faulkner Focus “.
The former secretary of state said President Biden’s oath to protect Americans in China “only matters as long as the government is prepared to support him.”
“When they were spying on us from a consulate in Houston, we closed it. When they were engaging in business practices that were unfair, we imposed tariffs on them. Everywhere in our livelihood, our administration took over. To do,” said Pompeo.
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Pompeo’s comments came after Biden spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time since taking office on Wednesday, describing his government’s “main concerns” about China’s “practices, aggressive activities and abuses” , signaling a “clear and consistent adherence to American values.” while discussing areas in which the government believes it may be in the United States’ national interest to work with Beijing, senior government officials said.
In a statement on Wednesday night, the White House said Biden “shared his greetings and best wishes with the Chinese people on the occasion of the Lunar New Year”.
“President Biden has stated his priorities of protecting the security, prosperity, health and way of life of the American people, and preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific,” said the White House. “President Biden highlighted his fundamental concerns about Beijing’s coercive and unfair economic practices, repression in Hong Kong, human rights abuses in Xinjiang and increasingly assertive actions in the region, including in relation to Taiwan.”
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Pompeo emphasized the importance of the Biden government to address the threat from China. During his tenure in the Trump administration, he recalled cases in which China made an effort to undermine the United States.
“Harris, I spent two and a half years here in the United States talking to governors right there, working at the state level. I went to the Wisconsin legislature, they are trying to influence our state legislatures. We saw what happened to Eric Swalwell in California.
“This is a total 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 government needs to face it “head-on” in the same way that Trump did.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.