Pompeo: China is dangerously undermining the United States

[New Sancai Compilation First] Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo warned lawmakers on January 30 that China is dangerously undermining the United States by allying with U.S. adversaries such as Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. .

"The regimes in Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang and Caracas all owe their continued existence to the Chinese Communist Party," Pompeo said during a hearing of the House Select Committee on the Communist Party of China. He added that these regimes all benefited from the Chinese Communist Party -- because They sell oil to China.

He said: "China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and Venezuela represent a new axis of evil regimes that are promoting a dangerous model for the world." "Personal and religious freedoms are subject to state restrictions and control, and neighbors may be invaded, coerced and abuse, economic colonialism became the norm."

Like former Secretary of State and CIA Director Pompeo, another former Defense Secretary and former CIA Director Leon Panetta also testified at the hearing and said that China is exploiting global conflicts to Promote the narrative of the decline of the West.

"China takes every opportunity to undermine the United States and the West by stealing our intellectual property to make us 'pay' for access to their markets, engaging in economic espionage, and trying to exclude us from the Pacific," Panetta said.

Panetta said that since Xi Jinping became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012 and president of China in 2013, "China has been engaged in an ideological campaign, primarily targeting countries in the Global South, to win goodwill while discrediting the United States and its allies. . ”

Pompeo said China's claim that its regime is superior to other countries' governance models is "dangerous to the United States and to humanity."

"I'm not taking these signs as evidence that our model is going to win, it's just to show that their model is not," Pompeo said. "But there is no question that a weakened China is more important to the United States and the world." It will also be a growing danger."

“Whether the free world model prevails depends on America. The question we face remains — to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln years ago — will we be the source of our own destruction?”

(The author: Michael Katz is a veteran journalist with more than 30 years of experience reporting and editing news, culture and politics.)
(Compiled by: Wang Jimin)

(Editor: Jiang Qiming)

(Source of the article: Compiled and published by New Sancai)