Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks in Atlanta, Georgia, on Dec. 9 on “The Chinese Communist Party’s Challenge to U.S. National Security and Academic Freedom.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Georgia Institute of Technology on Dec. 9 on “The Chinese Communist Party’s Challenge to U.S. National Security and Academic Freedom. Experts say Pompeo’s speech reveals that the United States will stop the mass infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party on U.S. campuses internally and intensify the fight against the Chinese Communist Party externally. The process of countering the Chinese Communist Party is the process of dismantling it.
In his speech, Pompeo counted the current situation of Chinese Communist Party infringement on U.S. campuses at multiple levels, including stealing technical information, suppressing freedom of speech, exerting political influence on U.S. school personnel, and monetary bribery. He also criticized some U.S. colleges and universities for being paid by Beijing to self-censor and thus remain silent about CCP violations or turn a blind eye to IP theft and espionage. He cautioned the American community to be vigilant and called on U.S. colleges and universities to address the challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party.
Qin Peng, a U.S.-based political and economic analyst, told the Epoch Times that Pompeo’s involvement in his country’s schools as the top diplomat reflects the seriousness of schools now being infiltrated by the CCP, “U.S. universities are one of the most serious places for CCP infiltration, directly threatening U.S. national security and academic freedom. Pompeo began contacting to speak at MIT in August of this year, but was rejected and finally chose the Georgia Institute of Technology.”
Pompeo’s speech released a series of signals “expressing the Trump (Trump) administration’s serious concerns about the Chinese Communist Party’s use of schools to steal U.S. scientific and technological information, jeopardize U.S. free speech and harass Chinese students or scholars of Chinese descent, emphasizing that in the future there will be increased scrutiny of the identities of students and scholars from China, and demanding that U.S. universities must assume their responsibility to defend academic freedom and free speech. ” Qin Peng said.
Gobi Dong, an independent scholar and columnist of current commentary in the United States, told the Epoch Times that Pompeo is a very pragmatic secretary of state, and every speech he makes carries a clear meaning from its location to its content. “The last ‘Declaration of Communism Extermination’ was at the Nixon Library, which launched the pro-Communist Party, and this speech on addressing the challenges of academic and freedom in the Communist Party chose to be on a university campus.”
Gobbledon said one of the biggest backdrops to the speech was the recent revelation that Fang Fang, the Chinese Communist spy who slept with several U.S. dignitaries, was from a university student union in Northern California. “There is now growing evidence that universities and corresponding academic institutions are the hardest hit by the CCP’s technology theft, suppression of free speech and infiltration of the United States, and that many higher academic institutions in the United States are not sufficiently vigilant about it.”
And the speech actually had the implication of knocking on the door that “academic institutions controlled by leftist forces in the United States in particular care more about receiving funding and profits from the Chinese Communist Party and don’t care about the possible poisoning of the United States, and he’s telling those people to stop opposing restrictions on the Chinese Communist Party for selfish gain.”
Pompeo made a point of emphasizing in his speech that by “China” he meant “the Chinese Communist Party,” specifically mentioning that the Communist Party harasses Chinese students or scholars of Chinese descent at U.S. universities and makes them live in fear. He said that the biggest victims on American campuses are innocent Chinese students. Chinese secret service students and spies have also been monitoring and endangering liberal and democratic-minded Chinese students.
Gobbledon said Pompeo’s insistence on the objective principle of separating the CCP from the Chinese is particularly important, “It reflects that the Trump administration is not blinded by the appearance of a crude one-size-fits-all approach to the issue of CCP poisoning, but is objective and fair in distinguishing between different situations. While this places a more difficult demand on the U.S. in terms of identifying Chinese for acceptance and use in higher academic institutions, it also ensures that the traditional U.S. mechanism of actively bringing in outstanding skills and talent is not crudely undermined.”
“Pompeo clearly distinguished between the CCP and China, stating that the U.S. is welcoming to Chinese students,” Qin Peng said, adding that in countering the CCP, “there is sympathy for ‘innocent Chinese citizens.'”
Internally stopping Chinese Communist infiltration externally strengthening the fight against the CCP
In his speech, Pompeo regarded the Chinese Communist Party as America’s greatest enemy and vowed to change the current unbalanced relationship between the U.S. and China in all areas, including academics, science and technology, the economy and the military. He also said that the turn toward China brought about by the Trump administration would become a long-term policy for the U.S. government as well as Western democratic societies.
Gobbledon said Pompeo specifically mentioned that the policy of a comprehensive crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party brought by the Trump administration is a long-term decision of particular importance that will stop the Chinese Communist Party from infiltrating on a large scale, “which also directly raises the requirement that institutions of higher learning must change the status quo to make corresponding changes as soon as possible, to form a long-term, specific mechanism of technological control over China, which will be open to the Chinese Communist Party using American technological talent for large-scale infiltration will have the effect of fundamentally stopping it.”
Qin Peng said this shows that the future new U.S. administration will definitely strengthen its comprehensive countermeasures against the CCP, “After Trump’s re-election, he will internally clean up the representative figures of American socialism, culture, and education heavily influenced by the left, these people and these fields are actually the places and carriers where the CCP has taken root, and externally the U.S. will strengthen its crackdown on the Chinese Communist Party, this combination of internal and external will definitely uproot the Chinese Communist Party uprooted from the world.”
“This counterattack is actually the process of dismantling the CCP.” Qin Peng said.
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