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© 2020 AFPPompeo urges entire world to stand up to China
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PTownsend
This is just more jingoism. Until 'western' corporations and their 'elite' owners cut ties with businesses run by CCP members, nothing's going to change. The 'western' .01% and their elected officials have been fully aware of what China has been doing. They've watched and haven't cared zip because they got richer right along with the CCP members. Speaking of cutting ties, does anyone know whether Ivanka, Jared and Trump himself have pulled their respective businesses out of China? Or whether Trump's shown his latest tax info so it can be seen where in China and around the world he's invested?
ulysses
Doesn’t help when your boss is taking both knees to Xi!!!!
Arrrgh-Type
Yeah, we need to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party! They use faceless, unidentifiable government thugs to abduct peaceful protestors! Oh, wait...
robert maes
I fully agree with Mr Pompeo on this. We must stop China now, retrieve manufacturing, stop giving them access to IP and patents. At least until Emperor Xi is removed from power.
Hongkong can serve the entire world as a last warning. If we do not act now, we will regret it forever
yosun
Quite a good way to check how many countries really follow orders of the US.
Peter Wright
100% agree. This is the most shameful think China did. Instead of humbleness and apology China deploy terror over the whole democratic world. Such a in unbelievable behavior. We all need to act now. This is a true face of this country.
Aly Rustom
regardless of whether or not you support Trump or not, like Pompeo or not (its a not to both for me), he's 100% right on the money with this one.
theFu
We need for China to join the world as a fair trading partner where rule of law applies. That isn't happening as long as Chinese people are "re-education", threatened into 1 political party's ideas, and fearful of their own govt.
How will be know when these things have happened?
"Causing trouble" won't be against the law.
"Peaceful Demonstrations" everywhere in China will be allowed.
Thugs won't be hired by the CCP to beat or disappear other Chinese.
Internet connections to the entire world won't be blocked. A free flow of information in and out of China will happen constantly.
Hackers from inside China will be extradited to other countries for their illegal activities.
Chinese Corporations won't be caught stealing ideas and property from other parts of the world.
I doubt I'll be alive when that happens, but it will happen, eventually.
bass4funk
Well, if you get Biden in office, that will never happen and that’s a promise.
With the exception of Schumer, the Democrats want to keep that gray train going.
Yeah.....
https://thehill.com/opinion/katie-pavlich/495156-pavlich-joe-bidens-china-problem
ulysses
You can bet nothing will happen under trump except hollow threats.
Ivanka has patents registered in China, trump is begging Xi for support and then there is a Mitch McConnell ......
K3PO
At a grassroots level, free citizens could stop buying chinese made. Difficult to do entirely but that would help.
ulysses
And I forgot Jared's businesses.
His family has been exploiting the trump connection to make money in China since 2016....
Vanessa Carlisle
Is this a joke? The U.S. government is responsible the overthrow of dozens of legitimate governments around the globe, causing destruction, oppression and death. The sun never sets on U.S. military bases there are so many scattered over Earth. The U.S. government outspends China by 5 times on the military. The U.S. has more people in prison than any country today or in human history, dwarfing the prison population of China. The U.S. government bullies its neighbors and so-called "allies" forcing them to host bases, enact laws and to shut up about U.S. violations of their sovereignty. The U.S. government has been proven to have been completely lying about its excuses for invading, shooting up and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan. To avoid the cost and trouble of storing radioactive heavy metals, the U.S. converts them to munitions and shoots them in foreign countries poisoning their kids. The U.S. is bombing several countries right now with no declaration of war. The U.S. government has black sites with unknown prisoners which make Guantanamo Bay look like Club Med. The U.S. government is rounding up citizens using plain clothes agents and unmarked vehicles. The U.S. government has companies censor posts like mine which is why so many of you know so little about all this. China sucks but if China is the 500 lb gorilla in the room, the U.S. is the 5000 lb. Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Pompeo has broken the scale of hypocrisy so badly that you better cover your face lest you get nailed by flying springs, gears and other random bits.
The Avenger
How about a speech on dangerous alliances with Russia, and their influence on ALL western elections? How about a speech on how democracy seems to be open to destruction by the highest bidder?
Made in China is Great Again
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/politics/trump-org-china-imports/index.html
Aly Rustom
No its not. We know that China is a threat. This is a non partisan issue
Don't get too smug and think that this win is in the bag. It isn't. November is still a ways away. Lets not make the same mistake as last time.
egads man!
I like how you chose an opinion piece written by someone with an agenda.
Anyways, about China I agree completely.
Vanessa Carlisle
Anyone more worried about China than Trump at this time is clearly not paying attention. Best wake up or you are going to be doing a funny salute to Herr Trump this November.
Strangerland
Pompeo is right, but he only got halfway there. The world needs to disconnect from America as well. Anyone doing business with either of these countries is holding the tail of a tiger.
Aly Rustom
They're not. They're making them in response to Nazi style persecution of religious minorities many of which are in concentration camps. They're making them in response to China's beligerence on the world stage. They're making them in response to China not honoring its agreements to 1 country 2 systems.
Without China's actions, no one would listen to Pompeo. But this is not partisan. He is right regardless.
GW
Like I have been harping for decades about getting OUT of China, CLEARLY when we were all sold on opening China back in the late 80s & that eventually Chinese people will experience more freedoms etc.....fast forward & THAT has been an EPIC failure!!
Hence China has failed to truly modernize & has become a monster that threatens every country in its vicinity & beyond.......
So the west needs to get out of China soon as possible.
So while I agree with what pompeo is saying I despise him like his boss & he is only USING this issue to help trump get re-elected.....
lincolnman
Hey Mike, you may want to talk to your boss and his daughter - you know, the ones that give millions of dollars to China to make their clothing and accessories lines, and import Chinese goods for Trump properties?
*President Donald Trump has cast himself as tough on China and promised that his trade negotiations with Beijing would economically benefit everyday Americans, even as Trump-owned properties have continued to contribute to the trade deficit with the country he rails about. Since September of last year, Trump properties in the US have imported more than eight tons of goods from China, CNN has learned by reviewing US customs data compiled by ImportGenius, which tracks information companies are legally bound to provide to US customs when they import goods to the US. *The imports have arrived to decorate his properties while the President has sought to dress down China.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/21/politics/trump-org-china-imports/index.html
Yes indeed - stand up to those Chinese communists.....and Trump business partners....
Strangerland
It’s clear trump is using the power of office to strong arm. China into giving his properties cheap deals.
Peter14
From time to time even the foolish can say something of substance.
Yes China must be stood up to for the many breaches in international norms. So to does America need to be stood up to when it bullies and does things like ignoring global warming and pulling out of the Paris accords.
People in glass houses..you know the rest.
SuperLib
It doesn't work so well when you spit on the entire world.
stormcrow
Pompeo's been living on another planet if he honestly believes that he's going to get support from America's former allies after Trump has been rubbing elbows with the who's who list of dictators since he's been in office.
koujuke39
@Vanessa Carlisle you say that America is very bad and China is not so bad in comparison.
You mention that America has many more incarcerated than China. Would you mind elaborating how that compares to the Uighur camp situation in China?
koujuke39
I think there are a lot of people in prison in America who shouldn't be locked up. Still, it is not the same as what China is doing with the Uighur's.
koujuke39
No doubt zichi. I also think some people hate America because they envy it so much.
koujuke39
I really do not like Pompeo. He is rude and arrogant and the last person I'd like for America to being using as a negotiator.
koujuke39
There is really nothing worse than an American who hates America enough to wish America's enemies well while bashing America. Pompeo is not a good diplomat but he is right about China being a bully in the South China Sea.
Wolfpack
No worries- biden will take care of China when he is president. He owes them for the billion dollar investment in his sons business. Wouldn’t want America to stand up to Communism, corporate theft, mercantilism, and the oppression of the Uigurs you know...