{"id":58234,"date":"2020-08-13T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=58234"},"modified":"2020-08-13T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T02:48:24","slug":"is-china-americas-next-evil-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/is-china-americas-next-evil-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Is China America\u2019s next \u2018evil empire\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a landmark speech on 23 July titled \u2018Communist China and the free world\u2019s future<\/a>\u2019 in which he made it plain that China was now America\u2019s main national security threat. The central theme of his speech was the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s\u2014not the Chinese people\u2019s\u2014designs for global hegemony.<\/p>\n

This was clearly a well-prepared and strongly positioned speech. Pompeo said that it was the fourth in a series of China speeches; the other three were delivered by National Security Adviser Robert O\u2019Brien<\/a>, FBI Director Chris Wray<\/a> and Attorney General William Barr<\/a>. All this points to a coordinated position in the US administration on the threat from China.<\/p>\n

However, the question now is, can we work on the principle that President Donald Trump is of the same view? Pompeo\u2019s speech was mainly about the ideological threat from China\u2019s communism, whereas Trump is much more focused on transactional issues, such as trade and business. Even so, neither Beijing nor the rest of us can afford to dismiss this speech.<\/p>\n

The following is a selection of some of the more important assertions by Pompeo:<\/p>\n