U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday (Jan. 4) that the work remains to be done. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said Monday (Jan. 4) that major issues, problems and trade relations between the United States and China have not been fully resolved and that the job remains to be done.
Secretary Pompeo was interviewed by Bloomberg Television on Monday in the “David Rubinstein Show: Peer-to-Peer”. The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations said President Trump has taken a very tough stance on the Chinese Communist Party, that the U.S. and China still have an unfair trade relationship, and that the theft of U.S. intellectual property by the Chinese Communist Party remains a problem. The job remains to be done.
Pompeo is considered a hard-core supporter of President Trump, and he has so far not explicitly acknowledged the election of Democrat Joe Biden.
Pompeo drew attention and speculation in the New Year when he posted a number of graphic messages on his official Twitter account showcasing U.S. diplomatic accomplishments during his tenure as secretary of state and his involvement as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
In an interview Monday, Pompeo said he wanted to find a way to tell the story of the Trump administration’s accomplishments. That was echoed in a Jan. 1 tweet from Pompeo, when he said, “My New Year’s resolution: to tell the American people the full story of our foreign policy. You may not see that anywhere else.”
Speaking of U.S.-China relations, Secretary Pompeo also noted on Monday that the Trump administration’s more confrontational approach to the Chinese Communist Party is a major change in more than four decades of U.S. policy toward China. Pompeo accused the Chinese Communist regime of trying to control shipping lanes in the South China Sea, covering up the Wuhan pneumonia virus (New Coronavirus) outbreak and failing to acknowledge its own 1997 commitment to Hong Kong.
Pompeo said, “Everything we’ve seen in the past year shows that Hong Kong is becoming just another city ruled by the Communist Party.”
On North Korea, Pompeo said there has been no testing of nuclear weapons or long-range missiles since the summit between Kim Jong Un and President Trump. Pompeo praised the world as a much safer place under President Trump’s leadership than it was four years ago.
On Iran, Pompeo warned, “They (meaning Iran) now think that there may be a president (meaning Biden) coming into power, and that this person will make the (nuclear) deal again, so they are raising the level of threat activity to get Europe and the United States to kowtow again.”
Pompeo hailed the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal as a major achievement, while the Obama/Biden administration’s signing of the Iran Nuclear Deal – formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – is creating wealth and capability for Iran’s thieves and theocrats.
Biden has already said that if he takes office, he will reinstate the Iran Nuclear Agreement, which was withdrawn from by President Trump in 2018.
On the issue of peace in the Middle East, Pompeo said he believes more countries will join the Abraham Accords, a peace agreement between Arab countries and the state of Israel.
I believe there will be more,” Pompeo said. That’s the direction of the journey. That’s the direction of history.”
On the issue of the Palestinians not accepting President Trump’s proposed peace deal, Pompeo accused the Palestinians of “rejecting even the willingness to open a dialogue on this.”
As for whether the Trump administration would consider Cuba a sponsor of terrorism, Pompeo said only that the United States is right to consider the issue because “the world knows that Cuba has the hand of evil in many places.”
In addition, Secretary Pompeo revealed that he has been vaccinated against the Wuhan pneumonia virus, but that he has always tested negative for the virus.
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