Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Chinese Communist Party is looking for the Biden administration’s “soft underbelly” in an effort to influence the Biden Administration and complete a series of efforts that have been hampered by the Trump presidency.
In an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday (Jan. 26), Pompeo was asked by the host if the Biden administration and new Secretary of State Antony Blinken understood the current threats facing the United States.
Pompeo replied, “I think they do, I think they see it, and I hope they get it right.”
“Backing down will not cause the Communist Party to change its direction or course. Quite the contrary, they need to see fierce resistance and the ability to demonstrate the ability to make them pay.” He added.
Pompeo is one of the senior officials in the Trump Administration who has pushed back hard against the Chinese Communist Party, and immediately after Biden was sworn in, the Communist authorities issued a statement declaring sanctions against 28 Trump administration officials, including Pompeo.
In response, Pompeo said that under the Trump administration, the U.S. government changed its decades-long policy of appeasement and dared to confront the Chinese Communist Party and protect the American people. After the Biden administration took office, the Chinese Communist Party used the sanctions to try to send a message to the Biden administration that it wanted Biden to implement the appeasement policy.
Pompeo said, “The next administration has a responsibility, a serious responsibility, to continue to tell the Chinese Communist Party that we are not going to go back to the appeasement policies of the last 40, 50 years.”
He added, “The Chinese Communist Party has taken advantage of Americans and destroyed millions of jobs, and that is intolerable, and the United States will not continue to hold back.”
When moderator Bartiromo asked, “Do you expect Beijing to try to take over Taiwan in the same way it went into Hong Kong and took over Tibet?”
Pompeo replied, “I have every confidence that they [the Chinese Communist Party] will challenge this administration to see if they can find a soft spot, to see if they can find a way to continue to put pressure on the people of Taiwan.”
Pompeo added, “I hope that this administration, I hope, will do what past administrations have done.”
He said, “I think we’ve done that in the past in a unique way. But to be clear, our expectation is to hold the Chinese Communist Party to its commitments to us, just as we have held our commitments to Taiwan. That’s the right thing to do for the American people and the way to put America first.”
Pompeo added that he was pleased with his successor as secretary of state, Anthony Blinken, for criticizing the Communist Party’s comments on its treatment of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
Pompeo said the Chinese Communist Party’s atrocities are the only ones seen since the 1930s. He said, “The world, not just the United States, but the entire world needs to unite and hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable so that they change and stop these atrocities that are happening there.”
Currently, former Secretary of State Pompeo has joined the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., after leaving office, where Pompeo will have the opportunity to participate in policy discussions and be close to major Republican donors.
Sarah May Stern, chair of the Hudson Institute Board of Trustees, said, “Secretary Pompeo’s exemplary record of public service and his commitment to the values that underpin our mission make this an exciting opportunity for collaboration.”
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