IN a speech Tuesday at the Ronald Reagan Institute’s Center for Freedom and Democracy, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Trump administration is “not finished yet” when it comes to getting tough on China. He used his most vicious rhetoric to date, accusing the Communist Party of China as a “Marxist-Leninist Monster” whose political system is “authoritarian, brutish.” It seems this ideological maniac who is going to lose his job as secretary of state will use his last-ditch effort to discredit China and shape anti-China agenda as the most prominent mark of his tenure. Pompeo admitted in his Tuesday speech that his attitude toward China was formed when he was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This is consistent with people’s judgment that he still behaves like a CIA director. In most countries, intelligence organs converge upon bottom-line thinking. By contrast, diplomatic departments represent more of a country’s openness and inclusiveness. Pompeo has upended that balance by turning the State Department into a more combative and confrontational front foe – even more so than the CIA. Pompeo has offended and humiliated diplomats with his bad example. He can be called the “No.1 Wolf Warrior” in global diplomacy. When he is forced to retreat from his position, the louder and more rampant his screams are, and the more they sound like wailing.
Pompeo is obsessed with making China an enemy. He has added a lot of his own fantasies in the China-US confrontation he created. According to his description of China, the two countries should have cut off any exchanges, and even the militaries of both countries should have prepared for a war. But the structure of China-US relations is complicated. While keeping vigilant against each other, the two countries have maintained the largest bilateral trade of the world. Many entangled interests cannot be cut off. Pompeo will ultimately be a loser. He is that kind of US governing elite who has the most hatred against China, which determines his false depiction of China and extreme policies that could not be widely followed and pushed by others. Much of his anti-China swagger is a bravado balloon and when he leaves, the balloon is bound to burst, as the unrealistic things he promoted will be revealed. For example, his said that nearly 50 countries and 170 telecommunications companies have joined the US-led Clean Network program that he has largely engineered, but all of those countries and companies are half-hearted in excluding China’s telecommunications elements, in which there are enough variables to make a nightmare for Pompeo.
– Global Times
