Former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger gave his first public speech since leaving office Wednesday (Feb. 3), advising the Biden administration not to fall into China’s negotiating trap.
Speaking at a forum organized by The Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University on Feb. 3, Bomen said China is very good at adopting a delaying policy when it comes to negotiations, and that under the Trump administration, an important U.S. important strategy has been to not allow China to stretch out the negotiations too long.
“For the United States, we want to put pressure on China to address as quickly as possible the things that China is doing that are harmful to our national security, prosperity and democracy,” he said, “so don’t fall into the trap that Beijing has set Time and time again, which is to try to lure the United States into long, formal mid-level negotiations.”
The U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (SED), which preceded the Trump Administration for years, has not achieved significant success in addressing trade imbalances.
In 2017, Bomen said, former Trade Representative Lighthizer showed a chart for the Cabinet showing “all these various conversations that the U.S. and China have gotten into over the course of 20 years, and yet the U.S. trade deficit with China and China’s intellectual property violations have escalated.”
In his speech, Bomen also addressed the issue of the origin of the new coronavirus. He argued that the Chinese government’s approach has made it possible for the world to “never know exactly how the virus came to be. He said former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released a document just before he left office that presented a full list of information currently available on the origin of the New Coronavirus. “One thing that is new in the document is the role that the Chinese military played at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research, which had never been disclosed before,” he said.
He also pointed out that the list also talks about a flu-like illness within the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research that occurred in November 2019.
Notably, Bomin’s wife is a virologist who worked in a CDC lab for many years. “My wife has been very helpful in my understanding of this crisis,” Bomen said.
Bomen, a former White House deputy national security adviser, resigned from the Trump administration on Jan. 6, the day Congress was rocked. He has been called “the architect of the Cold War with China” and is also seen as a “relatively traditional and conservative internationalist.
Bomen graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in China Studies. After graduating, he entered journalism and worked and lived in China for nearly a decade as a China correspondent for Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. He later switched careers to the Marine Corps, where he gained experience in national security.
In 2017 Bomen joined the U.S. national security team and participated in drafting a national security strategy document that clearly positioned China as a strategic competitor of the U.S. and played an important role in the U.S. government’s changing policy toward China.
As previously reported by New Era Weekly, as the chief China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal from 1998 to 2005, Boming’s knowledge of China was unparalleled by the average U.S. official.
During his seven years in Beijing, Boming was subjected to repression and harassment by Chinese state security agents and police and even the triads, and in 2005, Boming wrote in a Wall Street Journal article, “Life in China can show you what a non-democratic country can do to its citizens.” “I saw protesters stopped and beaten by plainclothes police in Tiananmen Square, and was videotaped by government agents when I spoke to a source.”
Direct physical attacks on Booming have likewise occurred. During the Sars Epidemic, a group of CCP police officers contained Boming in a toilet, then tore out his interview notes one by one and flushed them down the toilet in front of him. On another occasion, a state security officer walked into a Starbucks in Beijing and, without saying a word, punched Bo Ming in the face and left.
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