Yu Maochun, former China adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said in a recent interview that the Trump administration has reversed U.S. policy toward China, viewing the Chinese Communist regime as the central threat of the era. This shift is of historic significance.
Yu Maochun said the U.S. has always had a 19th-century missionary episode toward China, believing that the U.S. has a responsibility to bring backward China into the modern era and become a responsible international partner, which has led the West to repeatedly underestimate the evil of the CCP.
Yu Maochun, advisor to former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: “To me, this is completely unworkable, and as I said, there is a fundamental difference between the Chinese people who desire freedom, like everybody else, and the Chinese Communist Party, which is a very brutal Marxist-Leninist entity. We in the West continually underestimate the extent to which China is still a communist (state).”
Yu Maochun said past U.S. administrations also focused on China, but never as a top issue, instead using China Policy as a card to solve the North Korean nuclear issue, the Soviet Union issue, or other international problems, falling right into the CCP’s trap.
Yu Maochun, an adviser to former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: “China (the Communist Party) knows this. So, the Chinese (Communist Party) basically used that to manipulate us. So while we tried to play the China card, the Chinese Communist Party played the U.S. card more skillfully and successfully. It was President Trump, who is the first president since Nixon to realize the problem. He called China the number one priority. We have to change the dialogue, change the mechanism.”
Where the Trump Administration‘s China policy has succeeded is in truly recognizing the Chinese Communist Party for what it is and acting accordingly.
Yu Maochun, an adviser to former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: “We look at them [the Chinese Communist Party] as they are, not as we want them [the Chinese Communist Party] to be. That’s one of the things we did during the Trump administration.”
“What (the Trump administration) has done is we’ve tried to change the framework. Instead of focusing on how to do things right, we’re focusing on how to do the right things and be a combination of both. I think that really explains the Trump administration’s success.”
The Trump administration sees the China issue as a foreign policy centerpiece that neither Iran nor Russia can match, making clear that the Chinese Communist regime is the United States’ primary challenge.
Yu Maochun, adviser to former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: “China (the Communist Party) is the number one security challenge for the United States. We’ve said that from the beginning. in December 2017, at the beginning of the Trump administration, the White House released a national security strategy that made it clear that we have to really focus on this threat, the main threat coming from China (the Communist Party).”
Yu Maochun said former Secretary of State Pompeo spent a great deal of Time getting other countries to increase their awareness of the Chinese Communist threat. The Trump administration has been successful in convincing NATO to address the Chinese Communist challenge in the Indo-Pacific region.
Yu believes that the Trump administration has revolutionized U.S. attitudes toward China by recognizing the nature of the CCP as “the central threat of our time.
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