Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the 2021 CPAC conference on Feb. 27.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned the Chinese Communist Party‘s persecution in the Xinjiang region and said the world is lost if it does not designate the Chinese Communist Party as guilty of genocide in an interview with U.S. media on Saturday (Feb. 27). He urged the Biden administration to take action to make the Chinese Communist Party pay a “real price.
Pompeo made the remarks in an interview with Fox News on Saturday (Feb. 27) during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on whether the Biden Administration would follow through on the Trump administration’s statement that the Chinese Communist Party had committed genocide against the Uighurs.
“So far, the (Biden) administration has sent mixed signals.” Pompeo said, “My successor, Secretary (Antony) Blinken, said he also believes that genocide has occurred and is ongoing … and I’m glad he said that because the facts clearly demonstrate what’s happening.”
Blinken said his judgment that “the [Chinese Communist Party] has committed genocide against the Uighurs and that hasn’t changed. However, Biden’s U.N. ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said during her Senate confirmation hearing that the designation was being reviewed because of concerns that the previous administration had not followed the relevant procedures.
Pompeo told Fox that “if forced sterilization and forced labor, separating families, imprisoning a million people for the purpose of destroying non-Han people, if that’s not genocide, then the world has lost its way.” He went on to say that the U.S. government must respond forcefully to the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of the Uighurs.
“So the onus now falls on this administration to respond to the ongoing genocide, the worst human rights violation we’ve seen since the 1930s, and to respond in a way that convinces the Chinese Communist Party that they must stop persecuting and make them pay the real price until they do.” Pompeo said.
During the Trump Administration, the State Department under Pompeo has taken a tough stance against Beijing, sanctioning it for human rights violations and pushing back against its invasion of privacy and geopolitical manipulation.
Pompeo told Fox that the communist regime is waging a global campaign to “undermine the rule of law and democracy” by spreading disinformation, stealing intellectual property and using military force.
Pompeo also said that if the U.S. government is not prepared to confront the Communist Party in these areas, whether in diplomacy, the economy or the military, and if the United States is not prepared to compete and confront them, then the Communist Party will continue to strengthen in these areas and Americans will suffer as a result, as will people around the world.
Pompeo also told the Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leader” program Saturday during his appearance at CPAC: “There’s no question that there will be a disengagement (from the U.S.). Some people call it ‘decoupling,’ and it’s almost certainly going to happen.”
“For more than 40 years, both Democrats and Republicans have had the idea that by engaging China (the CCP), things will get better. But we’ve seen that the Chinese Communist Party has taken advantage of that and trampled on American jobs and undermined many of the matters that we care deeply about in America.” Pompeo said.
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