Pompeo speaks at the CPAC conference on Feb. 27.
President Biden has declared that “America is back” since taking office. In response, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo challenged the statement at the National Conservative Assembly (CPAC), saying, “Back where?” This drew laughter from the audience.
Pompeo said in his speech at CPAC on Feb. 27 that Biden’s slogan was “Build Back Better” and “America is back.
Pompeo laughed and asked back “back to what?” (back to what)
He went on to say: back to when terrorists threatened us with missiles? Back to the Time when we had to apologize to Iran? Back to choking off oil pipelines (revitalizing Europe’s oil pipelines), back to letting the Chinese Communist Party take advantage of the United States, back to all the things that put the United States at risk? We are not going back to these past, it is absolutely not feasible and the United States must respond forcefully.
He stressed not to forget that “China [the Chinese Communist Party] depends on us more than we depend on them.”
In his speech, Pompeo also criticized Biden for weakening the U.S. itself by announcing rejoining the Paris climate agreement.
He said, “The Paris climate agreement is a joke, everyone wants clean and safe drinking water, but the Paris agreement is a fantasy, a so-called virtue signal put out by elite diplomats.”
He said Xi has been secretly smiling every minute since Biden took office. “Because the Americans lost.”
The Wall Street Journal ran a Feb. 21 editorial, “Why Beijing Loves Biden and Paris,” saying the Chinese Communist Party was happiest when the U.S. formally rejoined the Paris climate agreement, knowing that it would limit U.S. energy development while Beijing would get a free ride for at least a decade.
The article also says that the climate agreement is bound to be costly to the U.S. economy, but the agreement will have the equivalent of zero impact on climate, with nothing changing. Predictably, Biden will send his climate deal envoy to lobby China to reduce its emissions, which will please Xi Jinping. For Xi is happy to make empty promises about the future, but will ask Biden to make concessions now on Taiwan, trade, etc.
In his first foreign policy talk since taking office in early February, Biden promised a new era in foreign policy, declaring a “return of America” to the international stage.
Calling the Chinese Communist Party the toughest competitor, Biden said, “We will confront China’s (Communist Party) abuse of economic status and counter its belligerent and high-handed behavior on human rights, intellectual property and global governance.”
But he followed that up by saying, “We are willing to work with China (Communist Party) when it aligns with American interests.”
On Feb. 11, Chinese New Year‘s Eve, Biden had his first call with Xi, who called for win-win cooperation between the U.S. and China, but asked the Biden Administration not to get involved in the so-called internal affairs of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang.
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