On Monday evening China’s President Xi once again bullied President Biden and in turn, the American people.
President Biden has spent months attempting to convince America and the world that he would stand up to President Xi, and that it was “pure business” between the two leaders; that they were not “old friends.” But Xi started by greeting Biden as an “old friend,” an act of rhetorical bullying in a meeting that only benefited the Chinese Communist Party and China’s president.
We in the Trump administration understood that appeasing adversaries, whether it was the Iranians, Russians or the Chinese, would lead to outcomes detrimental to the safety and security of Americans, and so we dealt with them from a position of strength leading to a more peaceful world and better outcomes for the American people.
Biden’s summit only served to galvanize the CCP’s aggressive posture that makes the world less safe and undermines our credibility as a force for good around the globe.
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Mike Pompeo served in the Trump administration as the sixth director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the 70th U.S. secretary of state. He previously represented Kansas’ 4th Congressional District.
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