Chinese People Are Rejecting the Ruling Communist Party: Mike Pompeo

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December 21, 2019US News
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The people of China want to live in a free society, and they’re rejecting the “authoritarian regime” of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday.

In a concise review of the past year, Pompeo said the United States made progress in informing the world of the threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

“We were asleep at the switch for a couple of decades as this threat continued to grow,” Pompeo said.

“I think President Trump set the conditions where we could go speak around the world and talk to our colleagues around the world to demonstrate to them that—while there’s enormous opportunity to sell goods in China and to create good things for the Chinese people—that the CCP presents real risks, and to begin to think materially, concretely, substantively about how to respond to it,” he said.

Mike Pompeo and President Trump
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump walk toward the press after meeting with Kim Yong Chol, former North Korean military intelligence chief, on the South Lawn of the White House on June 1, 2018. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)

In a recent speech, Pompeo made a sharp distinction between the Chinese people and the CCP—which dominates all aspects of life in China.

“The communist government in China today is not the same as the people of China. They’re reaching for and using methods that have created challenges for the U.S. and for the world,” Pompeo said.

Pompeo concluded, “It’s important that the U.S. recognize the greatness of the people of China and their capacity for desiring freedom and wanting nothing more than to live their lives, and the CCP that has a very different mission set.”

Reporting by NTD News.

Lorenz Duchamps contributed to this report.

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