2024-04-03 17:42 United News Network corner book selection In 2018, Secretary of State Pompeo visited Beijing during his tenure and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and others. …
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Text/Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
I also focused on China’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when President Trump’s term was coming to an end and it was difficult to say whether he would be re-elected. I must continue to hold China accountable for its other disgraceful behavior over the decades.
I spend a lot of time talking to senior business leaders about China and, more specifically, how the Chinese Communist Party controls them. I think some of the industry executives thought I was crazy. At the nadir of the pandemic, I got a call from a tech CEO who had been involved in global health issues for decades.He urged the United States to increase its participation in more global vaccine efforts, that is, to invest more funds to supportGAVI（Gavi）。
I took the opportunity to ask him: “Why do you think Chinese people like you so much?” He didn’t like this question, so I didn’t mention it again on the phone. But both he and I knew that he had access to China’s top leaders not because of his looks or intelligence, but because he was their next target.
In private conversations, I have repeatedly reminded these American corporate giants what it means to do business in China.
There are no real private enterprises in China. It’s that simple.
The Communist Party can legally own or control any economic and commercial entity, or force you to operate according to the instructions of state authorities. If you do business with a company owned or controlled by the Chinese government, you are doing business with the Chinese Communist Party.This is not only clearly stated in the“National Security Law of the People’s Republic of China”standards and can be understood using common sense.askJack MaBar—the high-profile Chinese businessman who mysteriously disappeared for several months in 2020—asked him whether he thought he actually controlled anything.
In 2019, Pompeo attended the NATO summit with Trump. Photo/Reuters The Communist Party can legally own or control any economic and commercial entity, or force you to operate according to the instructions of state authorities. like…
It’s bad enough that Chinese companies are controlled by the CCP, but it would be even worse if American companies were controlled by the Chinese government. Under Chinese law, all companies based in China, including U.S. companies, are required to cooperate with Chinese intelligence and security agencies.In 2022, the CCP even expanded its regulations to require Western companies toparty organizationincluded in their operations in China. Any business with ties to China is at risk.
During the pandemic, I saw the Chinese government prevent U.S. companies from shipping their products made in China to fulfill contracts with U.S. customers, and these products were meant to be shipped on U.S. aircraft. Does this sound okay? However, the Chinese government refused to approve the shipping documents. I have seen the Chinese government threaten relatives of American citizens in China if they did not cooperate.I have seentwo canadiansand countless others detained for political goals in China. China’s legal system – itself a loaded term – only protects the party chief. American companies have no right to own property in China; they have no ownership rights, only temporary holding rights.
During the Trump administration, we started to issue warnings to the business community, and now this is starting to have a real impact on global companies, and everyone has become more cautious and carefully weighed the dangers of doing business in China. We need the help of American companies to hold the CCP actually accountable.
A leadership team in the Trump administration is also working hard to prevent the CCP’s propaganda and espionage operations in various places.Their targets are not just federal officials, such as Democratic Reps.Eric.Swawel(Eric Swalwell) and senior Democratic senatorsDiane.Feinstein. The CCP is also targeting our universities, local governments, media, and think tanks. And the worst part is, many of these activities are legal.
The CCP has long ago found ways to instill poison into an open society like the United States. They will use official agents with diplomatic status and also coerce Chinese citizens to achieve their intentions. For years, the Chinese Communist Party has operated “language and cultural centers” on American campuses, also known as “Confucius Institute”, although the current number is much lower than before the Trump administration. (But sometimes their American-hating and subversive rhetoric is also hard to distinguish from what is taught in many college classes).
The CCP is trying to brainwash American elites through China’s state-run“China Daily”(China Daily) pays to publish comments or advertisements in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and even the Wall Street Journal.In 2020, the U.S. Department of Justicesuea Chinese spy who allegedly even infiltrated the New York City Police Department to spy on Tibetans living in New York.
In 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping (middle) attended the Confucius Institute event at University College London. On the left is Andrew from England… Everyone has become more cautious and carefully weighed the risks of doing business in China. Pictured is Beijing.Photo/Reuters
No aspect of American society can escape the CCP’s united front, and these activities are run by the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC.Some activities are even directly controlled by Beijing, such asUnited Front Work Department of the Communist Party of ChinaofChina Peaceful Reunification Promotion Committee, they have more than thirty branches across the United States. I ask every citizen, business and academic leader to be wary of those who claim to represent Chinese institutions, especially when they make attractive offers or propose new partnerships. I have no doubt that one of the conditions for doing business with them is telling lies endorsed by the CCP or turning a blind eye to their evil deeds.
Fighting Chinese espionage networks inside the United States is much harder than you think. Federal agencies, often in opposition to the State Department and the CIA, are divided over how to handle foreigners who engage in espionage. Normally, when an agency identifies bad actors – who are usually “diplomats” with permission to be in the United States – and seeks their deportation, the State Department and the CIA are reluctant because they Know that if the United States expels a Russian or Chinese diplomat, those countries will retaliate by expelling one of our diplomats, thereby undermining U.S. intelligence capabilities.
Unfortunately, because diplomatic agencies operating in the United States are under the jurisdiction of the State Department, those diplomats in question almost always escape unscathed. During my four years at the CIA and State Department, I decided to do something different. No one can use their diplomatic status to spy in the United States, and if found, we should kick them out, preferably publicly.
That’s great news for law enforcement, but within the agency where I work, it’s heresy. The best example is that it took me three full years to close the Chinese consulate in Houston, a central hub for Chinese espionage.
Although U.S. government officials have long known that the diplomatic establishment is a hub for spies, closing the consulate would have serious consequences. My team would have said, “Who knows how China will respond? They will also close our consulates, at least one, maybe all of them. They may deny visas to all government officials. We can’t take the chance.”
But I see it differently. Chinese diplomats in Houston were stealing important medical technology and methods from the University of Texas Medical System.China almost certainly also stole from the University of Texas at HoustonMD Anderson Cancer CenterMD Anderson Cancer Center’s massive cancer research data, just as we know for sure that China has stolen data from COVID-19 vaccine research around the world.
In fact, Anderson Cancer Center fired three researchers in 2019 because they allegedly provided research data to China. We also know that China is stealing information from a top Texas energy technology company and monitoring port activity in ways we don’t yet fully understand. And it’s not just American intellectual property that’s been stolen, but European expertise as well. So, my colleagues and I decided to plan an operation.We and the Ambassador to ChinaTerry.Branstad(Terry Branstad) joins forces to prepare his team for possible retaliation. And we are careful to make sure that no information about this plan leaks.
The picture shows Pompeo’s visit to Beijing during his tenure as Secretary of State in 2018 to meet with the Chinese State Councilor and the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China…
History will judge this to be one of the most unexpected missions to eradicate foreign espionage. We obtained a series of indictments from the U.S. Department of Justice.Next, on July 19, 2020, I issued a diplomatic note (démarche), which is a formal document between diplomats to state a country’s policy stance. Such notes are rarely issued by The Secretary of State issued it, but I want to ask the Chinese Ambassador to the United StatesCui TiankaiUnderstand the seriousness of this matter.
Ambassador Cui came to my office unprepared for the bad news—a good sign given the secrecy surrounding our operation. Cui Tiankai’s first reaction was a strange request. He asked me to stop distinguishing the Chinese people from the CCP.
He hated my insistence on exposing the lie: that the Chinese people were represented by people like him.
He said distraught that China was bound to close its sixth U.S. consulate: Hong Kong. Next, he went full-on, trying to stop our campaign to clear out spies.He addressed the White House, Capitol Hill, and Trump’s son-in-lawJared.Kushner, the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, and anyone else who would listen. He used all his connections to try to isolate me and try to investigate whether this diplomatic note represented a concerted effort by the entire U.S. government to invest in this, or whether it was just my personal wish.
He soon realized that this was for real. Our actions continued, and on July 22, we announced that the Chinese Communist Party must evacuate the Consulate General in Houston within 72 hours. Despite Ambassador Cui’s insistence that they had nothing to hide in Houston, within hours Brian, the man in charge of the operation. Bulatao entered my office and turned on the TV.We watched every TV channel and they were reporting on the Chinese Consulate General in Houstonfire broke out, thick smoke. There’s nothing to see here, comrades, please spread out.
As Ambassador Cui threatened, China retaliated by closing a U.S. consulate—but not the one in Hong Kong, but the one in Chengdu. It’s unfortunate, but it’s worth the sacrifice. The Justice Department indictments and consulate closures forced China to withdraw nearly all of its agents in the United States. And this also has the additional benefit of causing other countries to also start to take action on their spy deployment.
I hope to be able to persuade the president to let me close more consulates – this is not a back-and-forth attack, but because the CCP’s activities in the United States are very unequal to the activities of the United States in China. This serious imbalance should not be allowed to continue.
There is no time to delay in confronting China. The picture shows a protester from the Uyghur community living in Turkey during a protest in Istanbul…
“Never Give In: A Memoir of Pompeo”
author:Mike. Mike Pompeo
Translator:Ji Jingjing, Wu Guoqing, Wang Weifen, Shi Ji’an
the publisher:Lian Jing
Publication date:2024/03/28
brief introduction:Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a core figure in Trump’s diplomatic team. He was appointed director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2016 and took over as secretary of state in 2018, becoming the only national security member of Trump’s cabinet to serve for four years. He has a tough style, criticizing China’s human rights issues, criticizing Iran’s relationship with terrorism, promoting North Korea’s denuclearization, and supporting Israel with actions. Various attempts to break the established foreign policy pattern have aroused attention and controversy from the outside world, but he believes that he upholds the founding principles of the United States and his Christian faith, and is committed to promoting democracy and freedom around the world. During his tenure, he also led a dramatic change that reshaped the relationship between the United States and China and affected the world, including Taiwan. “Never Give In” records the fascinating story of Pompeo’s interactions with leaders of various countries, as well as his analysis and views on the contemporary world. It also tells how he helped the Trump administration formulate the “America First” policy that subverts Washington’s tradition. This book is also a true record of climaxes, boldly deciphering the political behind-the-scenes stories unknown to the world.
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