Chinese President Xi Jinping is the world’s “most dangerous” leader and ultimately wants to rule the world, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo writes in a new memoir detailing his four years as a top intelligence and diplomatic voice in the Trump administration.
In his book and in remarks to The Washington Times, Mr. Pompeo, a former congressman and a potential candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, reveals details of his talks with Mr. Xi and other world leaders while CIA director and secretary of state under President Trump.
“It was a tough assignment,” Mr. Pompeo, a West Point grad and Christian conservative, writes in “Never Give an Inch,” his just-released 413-page memoir. He said China’s military is preparing for an invasion of Taiwan and built up its power in all warfare domains — space, cyber, conventional, nuclear, and maritime. Beijing also is using the Belt and Road Initiative to expand its power globally, Mr. Pompeo said.
During the meeting, Mr. Xi went on a long diatribe opposing U.S. support for Taiwan, tariffs imposed by Mr. Trump on Chinese goods, and China’s claim to own 90 percent of the South China Sea, he said. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr. Pompeo said, Mr. Xi called Mr. Trump in an effort to have the secretary of state fired, claiming that Mr. Pompeo had defamed the Chinese people and was antagonistic toward Beijing.
The new State Department policies sought to limit U.S. technology transfers to China, provide greater support for Taiwan, and develop reciprocity in bilateral relations. The State Department was directed under Mr. Pompeo to seek deeper engagement with the people and government of Taiwan, including sending senior officials to visit the island. Guidelines restricting Taiwanese and U.S. exchanges were also scrapped.
Mr. Pompeo said that one of his most successful efforts was a three-year battle inside the Trump administration to shut down the Chinese consulate in Houston, which he said Beijing was using as a base to spy on local medical centers and other facilities. “I do not believe the CCP intentionally unleashed COVID-19 on the world as a bioweapon, though I could be wrong,” he said.
Mr. Pompeo said his CIA team had not prepared him for a greeting joke about assassination, but as the CIA chief, “maybe his bon mot made sense.” Mr. Pompeo said the comment is a lesson for current U.S. policymakers, arguing that an expansion of U.S. missile and ground forces in South Korea “won’t bother the North Koreans at all.”
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