Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed Feb. 15 that he will co-chair with former national security adviser Robert O’Brien the California nonprofit Nixon Foundation’s monthly foreign policy roundtable to refine and advance U.S. conservative The China issue will be one of the main points of discussion. Pompeo said he looks forward to such collaboration to allow U.S. “conservative realism to continue to evolve.
According to a Feb. 15 press release from the Nixon Foundation, the Nixon Roundtable on Conservative Realism and National Security will “revisit and advance the vision of conservative realist international policy that President Nixon advanced 50 years ago,” according to comprehensive media reports. “. The forum will focus on U.S.-China relations, global science and technology innovation, and promoting lasting peace in the Middle East. The first panel is expected to be held via video message on March 2.
In a joint statement, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Adviser John O’Brien said such a forum is critical in the current context. “Our monthly discussions will advance American interests and develop the next generation of realist decision-makers for the United States.”
Participants in the roundtable also include such heavyweights as former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger, former State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus and Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI).
Pompeo is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. He is the first U.S. Secretary of State to have served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and is a strong supporter and implementer of the Trump administration’s foreign policy. He is politically conservative and strongly Anti-Communist, and advocates rejecting the idea of trying to promote China’s democratization through trade, distinguishing the Chinese Communist Party from the Chinese people, and confronting the Chinese Communist Party on the level of national security.
After leaving office, Pompeo tweeted a countdown to the 2024 presidential election date, prompting speculation about whether he intends to participate in the 2024 presidential election. But he did not give a clear answer to this, only emphasizing his desire to continue to promote the Trump Administration‘s “America First” cause in some role.
In an interview with the media after leaving office, Pompeo noted that the Chinese Communist Party was looking for the Biden administration’s “weaknesses” in order to achieve many of the Trump-era U.S. obstructionist goals, including putting pressure on Taiwan. Pompeo also criticized the Biden Administration for focusing on “semantics” like banning the “China virus” from federal documents, which is “really disappointing.”
Earlier, in a Feb. 9 interview on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom,” Pompeo disagreed with the Biden administration’s comments about cooperation with Beijing and said Biden should have been more concerned about protecting Americans.
We don’t have to worry about how General Secretary Xi Jinping feels,” he said. We should think about protecting the American people. …… We have to face the challenges that the Chinese Communist Party is presenting to the United States and to the world.”
Pompeo said, “Whether it’s the thousands of lives lost due to the Chinese Communist virus or the millions of jobs destroyed by Chinese Communist policies, they [the Communist Party] steal from us and then dump their [Chinese products] back into the United States.”
He said it remains important to judge a country by its actions rather than “propaganda.
Pompeo has been a hawk on the Chinese Communist Party. Before he left his post as secretary of state, he declared the Chinese government guilty of genocide against the Uighurs in Xinjiang.
And before becoming Trump’s White House national security adviser, O’Brien served as a U.S. hostage negotiator since May 2018, brokering the release of U.S. citizens around the globe. O’Brien was a major in the U.S. Army Reserve. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and established a law firm in California in 2016, focusing on international arbitration matters.
O’Brien has strongly condemned the Chinese Communist government for hiding the Communist virus Epidemic, far more deadly than the Soviet Union’s concealment of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Communist epidemic has spread around the world, killing innocent lives and affecting U.S.-China relations, and the Chinese Communist Party has deeply interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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