Next, secretary of state mike pompeo talked abut the future of u. S. China relations. This was held at the Richard Nixon president ial library in california. Esidential library in california. This is just over one hour. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable Michael Pompeo. The honorable pete wilson, Christopher Nixon cox and hugh hewitt. [applause] good afternoon. Im Christopher Nixon cox, grandson of Richard Nixon and on behalf of my family and the board of directors of the foundation i want to welcome you to another important event and the museum is right behind me here. Today we are honored to have secretary of state Michael Pompeo to have chosen the Nixon Library to make a major speech about u. S. China relations. Like we do so often at the library, we are going to begin the program with a prayer. Would you please remain standing and welcome greg laurie, the Senior Pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship for an invocation. Lets pray together. We are thankful to live in this country the United States of america and one thing we treasure so greatly as the freedom we have to pursue life, liberty and happiness. We have the freedom to speak our minds, the worship and freedom to proclaim the message that jesus christ died for our sins and rose from the dead and can give the personal life, liberty and happiness if we will put our trust in him, but we have other brothers and sisters in other countries that dont have this freedom. We think of those suffering under the tyranny of china including our own persecuted church. We pray for them that you would strengthen them and help them and we thank you for President Trump who wants to lead us courageously in the right way, and we thank you for secretary pompeo, who is a champion of these rights. We pray for secretary pompeo as your servant, as he travels around the world to help spread this freedom that we enjoy. We commit this meeting, the speech and most importantly, the nation to you. We ask you to protect, guide and bless the United States of america. In jesus name we pray, amen. [applause] thank you, pastor. Lets remain standing as we salute our country. Please, for the presentation of colors and the national emblem. [presentation of colors] oh say can you see by the dawns early light music mac what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight music mac ore the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night music that our flag was still there. Oh say does that starspangled banner wave music ore the land of the free and the home of the brave. [applause] [applause] [presentation of colors] thank you, and you may be seated. Please join me in thanking the air force blue eagles honor guard kayla of the air force band of the golden west for that beautiful rendition. [applause] my grandfathers vision and courage made the United States opening to china possible when he and my grandmother went there almost 50 years ago in 1972. He called that the week that changed the world. And he understood that the world is always changing. Secretary pompeo is on the frontline of americas foreignpolicy and its fitting that he is here at the nixon president ial library and birthplace to discuss the relationship between our two countries today. It is my privilege now to introduce a distinguished statesman, a mayor, senator, governor, and an old close friend of my family, the nixon family, who will introduce secretary pompeo. My family asked this friend to eulogize both my grandmother and my grandfather in this exact location, 26 and 27 years ago. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming governor pete wilson. [applause] thank you very much, chris. Most generous. Im not sure your grandfather would have recognized the. I had the great pleasure in addition to welcoming all of you to the nixon birthplace and library, i have the great pleasure of introducing to you an extraordinary american who was here at an extraordinary time. But the fun of it is in introducing our honored guest, i also am welcoming him not just to the Nixon Library, but im welcoming him back home to orange county. [applause] thats right. Mike pompeo was born in orange. [applause] key attended those amigos high school where he was an outstanding student and athlete. In fact i have it on Good Authority that among the fans of glory days a hush descends upon the crowd whenever the name pompeo is mentioned. The secretary was first in his class at west point. He won the award as the most distinguished cadet. He won another award for the highest achievement in engineering management. He spent his active duty years, his army years in west germany, and as he put it, patrolling the iron curtain before the fall of the berlin wall. In 1988, excuse me, retiring with a rank of captain, he went on to Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the law review. In 1988, he returned to his mothers home state of kansas and began a stunningly successful business career. He was elected to the house of representatives from kansas in 2011, where he soon gained Great Respect for a reputation as one of the most diligent members of the House Intelligence Committee. In 2017, President Trump nominated him to be the director of central intelligence. And in 2018, he was confirmed as our 70th secretary of state. You have to admit thats quite an impressive resume. So with that said there is only one thing missing that keeps him from being perfect. If only mike had been a marine. [applause] [laughter] dont worry, he will get even. Mike pompeo is a man devoted to his family, he is a man of faith, and the greatest patriotism. What ione of his most important initiatives that the state department has been the creation of a commission on inalienable rights, where mathematicians, philosophers and ethicists and the need to advise him on human rights and grounded in americas founding principles and the principles of the 1948 universal declaration of rights. She is here today for a very special reason. The epitaph on president nixons grave stone is a sentence from his first inaugural address. It says, quote, the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. Richard nixon received the title. He won that honor not only because he was acknowledged even by his critics to be a brilliant foreignpolicy strategist, but it was far more because he earned it. He learned as congressman, senator, president , and every day thereafter as a private citizen ambassador that piece is not achieved by signing documents and declaring the job done. To the contrary, he knew that peace is always a work in progress. He knew that peace must be fought for and won a new in every generation. It was president nixons vision, determination and courage that open china to america and western world. As president , and for the rest of his life, Richard Nixon worked to build a relationship with china based upon mutual benefits and obligations that respected americas dead Rock National interests. Today, we in america are obliged to assess whether or not president nixons laborers and hopes for such a relationship have been met or whether they are being undermined. That is why it is of such great significance that our honored guest, secretary pompeo, has chosen the Nixon Library from which to deliver a major china policy statement. It will, i promise you, be a statement of complete clarity, delivered with force, and with belief, because it is critical importance. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome to the podium and to the audience our honored guest, the secretary of state of the United States of america, the honorable and quite remarkable, the honorable Michael Pompeo. [applause] [cheering] thank you all. Thank you, governor, for that very generous introduction. Its true when you walk in the gym, there is a whisper. I had a brother that was a really good basketball player. How about another applause for the Wonderful National anthem. Thank you for that moving prayer, and i want to thank hugh hewitt and the foundation to speak at this important introduced by a marine and they let the army guy in front of the navy. It is an honor to be here. Thank you for making this day possible for me and my team. We are blessed to have some special people in the audience including chris, who ive gotten to know. I want to thank them for their visit as well and recognize the chinese dissidents whove joined us today and made a long trip and to all the other distinguished guests. [applause] the other distinguished guests thank you and you must have paid extra. Thank you for tuning in, and finally i was born not very far from here, ive got my sister and her husband in the audience thank you for coming out at youo you thought they would never be standing up here. My remark today are the fourth set and a series of speeches i asked the National Security adviser, fbi director and the attorney general to deliver alongside if they. We had a mission to explain the different facets of the relationship with china. Massive imbalances in the and te relationship that have built up over decades and the designs for hegemony. The goal was to make clear the threats and strategy for securing those freedom established. Ambassador ryan spoke about ideology. The fbi director talked about espionage. Attorney general barr spoke about economics and now my goal was to put it together for the American People into detail but the threats means for the economy, for our liberty, and for the future of the free democracies around the world. Next year marks half a century since doctor kissingers mission to china. It isnt too far away in 2022. The world was much different then. We imagined engagement would produce a future with bright promise of cooperation, but today we are all still Wearing Masks and watching the pandemic rise. Including here in Southern California and we are watching a Chinese Military that grows stronger and stronger and indeed more menacing. I will echo the questions ringing in the hearts and minds to my home state of kansas and beyond. What do the American People have to show now 50 years on from engagement with china is this the definition of a winwin situation and indeed some trolling from the secretary of states perspective do we have a greater likelihood of peace for ourselves and the generations that will follow us we have decided tha with the truth in te years and decades to come up the chinese century of which he dreams, but the old paradigm is simply wont get it done. We must not continue it and not return to it. As President Trump has made clear we need to protect our way of life through the free world must triumph over this new tierney. Before i seem to eager to tear down, i want to be clear he did what he believed was best at the time and he may have been right. He was a brilliant student of china, a fierce warrior and a tremendous admirer of the American People just as i think we all are. He deserves enormous credit for realizing it was too important to be ignored even when the nation was weakened because of its own selfinflicted communist brutality. In 1967, nixon explained his future strategy. To the extent we can, we should. Our goal should be to induce change and that is the key phrase is to induce change so with that trip, president nixon kicked off the engagement strategy and nobody saw it the free and safe world and hoped the Chinese Communist party would return that commitment. As time went on, as policymakers presumed as china became more prosperous, it would open up and become fre free athome and pret less of a threat abroad. It all seemed unsure so inevitable. But that age when it is over, the kind of engagement we have been pursuing isnt the kind of change inside of china president nixon hoped to induce. The truth is our policies and those of other nations resurrected the failing economy only to see beijing byte of the international handtheinternatioe feeding it. We open our arms to the citizens only to see the communist party exploit our free and open society. They send propagandizing to the press conferences and research centers, high schools, colleges and pta meetings. We marginalize our friend which later blossomed into a vigorous democracy. We gave the regime itself special economic treatment only to see the ccp insists on silence over human rights abuses so as not to anger beijing. And hollywood not too far from here, the epicenter of the freedom and the selfappointed arbiters of social justice self censors the most unfavorable reference to china. This corporate acquiescence happens all over the world and outlines how has this worked. The ultimate ambition china ripped off the intellectual property sits costing millions of jobs all across america. It sucks the supply chains and added slave labor. It made th it the worlds waters less safe for international commerce. He feared he had created a frankenstein by opening the world to the ccp. And here we are. Its why they allowed these to happen for all these years. Perhaps we were naive about the communism or triumphant after our victory in the cold war, or hoodwinked by their talk of the rise. Whatever the reason, today china is increasingly authoritarian at home and with hostility to freedom everywhere else. President trump has said enough. I dont think many people on either side of the isle dispute the fac facts that ive laid out today but even now some are insisting we preserve the model of dialogue. We will keep on talking. I traveled to honolulu a few weeks back to meet. It was the same old story. Plenty of words, but literally no offer to change any of the behaviors. The promise is like so many of the ccp made before him were empty. His expectations, i summarize, is i caved t cave to their demas because frankly this is what too many prior administrations have done. I didnt, and President Trumpcop will not either. As the ambassador explained, zero well. We have to keep in mind the ccp regime is a marxist, one in regime. The general secretary is a true the leade lever and a bankrupt totalitarian ideology. This ideology informs his decades long desire for global hegemony of chinese communism. America can no longer ignore the fundamental and ideological differences between the two countries just as the ccp has never ignored them. My experience in the House Intelligence Committee into them as the director ois the directol Intelligence Agency and by now two plus years as americas secretary of state have led me to this central understanding that the only way to truly change communist china is to act not on the basis of what the chinese leaders say, but how they behave and you can see the american policy responding to this conclusion. President reagan said he dealt with the Southern Union on the basis of trust and when it comes to the ccp, we must distrust and verify. We, the freedom loving nations must induce china to change just as nixon wanted, and in a more creative and assertive way because the actions threaten our people and prosperity. We must start by changing how the partners perceive the party and told the truth. We can can treat this incarnats a normal country just like any other. We know it isnt like trading with a normal lawabiding nation. Beijing threatens the agreements and treats the suggestions were agreement as suggestion, thats for global dominance. By insisting on fair terms of the representative did when he secured the trade deal, we could foreshadow to reckon with its intellectual property theft that harms american workers. We know doing business with the ccp companies at the sam compans doing business with say a canadian company. A good example is weve taken action accordingly. We know if the Companies Invest in china, they made super communist partys human rights violations. The department of treasury commerce have blacklisted for theaters and entities that are harming and abusing the most basic rights for people across the world. Several have worked together to make certain our ceos are informed of Health Supply chains are behaving insight of china. We know not all Chinese Students and employees are normal students and workers that are coming here to make a little bit of money and garner themselves and some knowledge. Too many of them come here to steal intellectual property and to take this back to their country. The department of justice and other agencies pursue punishme punishment. The purpose is to uphold the rule of the chinese and expand the chinese empire not to protect the Chinese People come to the department of defense ramped up these efforts, the freedom operations throughout the east and souteast and southd the Taiwan Strait as well that we created a space force on the final frontier and so weve built out a new set of policies dealing with china pushing the goals for fairness and reciprocity to rewrite the imbalances that have grown over decades. We announced the closure of the chinese consulate in houston because it was the of spiking and international threat. [applause] there was a 20 with respect to International Law in the South China Sea. We called on china to conform its capabilities to the strategic realities of our time and the state department across the world has engaged with our counterparts simply to demand fairness and reciprocity. But the approach cant just be what is likely to achieve the outcome they desire. We must also engage and empower the people that are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist party that begins with in person diplomacy. Ive met chinese men and women of diligence wherever i go. Ive met with those that have escaped the concentration campss and i talked with the hong kong democracy leaders from cardina cardinals. Two days ago in london, i met with the Freedom Fighter wouldvone ofthem is here todayy student who never stopped fighting for freedom. Wilwill you please stand so thae may recognize you. [applause] also with us today is the father of the chinese democracy movement. He spent decades for his advocacy. Will you please stand. [applause] i grew up and served my time in the army during the cold war. There is one thing i learned, communists almost always lie. The biggest lie that they tell is to think they speak for 1. 4 billion are scared to speak out. Quite the contrary. They fear their honest opinions more than any. The same for losing their grip on power they have no reason to. Think how much better off the world would be if we had been able to hear from the doctors and had they been able to raise the alarm about the outbreak of a new and novel virus. For too many decades they ignored the words of the great chinese citizens t citizens to f the regime that we are facing and we cannot ignore it any longer. They know we cannot go back to the status quo. But changing the behavior cannot be the mission of the Chinese People, the free nations have to work to defend freedom. Its the furthest thing from easy. I have faith we can do it because weve done it before. We know how this goes. I have faith because they are repeating some of the same mistakes that the soviet union had an alienating potential allies, breaking trust at home and abroad, rejecting a Property Rights and rule of law. I have faith because of the awakening that i see i and the others to know we cannot go back to the past in the same way that we do here in america. Ive heard this from brussels to sit and most of all i have faith because of the appeal of freedom itself. Look at them clamoring to tighten the grip on the city. They waved american flags. Its true there are differences. China is deeply integrated into the global economy. But beijing is more dependent on us than we are on them. [applause] i reject the notion that we are living in an age of inevitability that some trap is preordained that the cc our approach isnt destined to fail because america is in decline. As i said in munich earlier this year, the free world is still winning. We just need to believe it and know it and be proud of it. People want to come to open societies to come here to work and build a life for their families. They are not desperate to settle in china. Its time. Its great to be here today. The timing is perfect. Its time to every nation while approaching the same way nor should they. Every nation will have to come to its own understanding of how to protect its own sovereignty and how to protect its own Economic Prosperity and how to protect its ideals from the tentacles of the communist party, but i call on every liter of every nation to start by doing what america has done, they simply insist on reciprocity and insist on transparency and accountability. Those that are far from homogenous and the simple and powerful standards will achieve a great deal. For too long we let them set the terms of engagement but no longer just set the tone. We must operate on the same principles with common winds in the sand that cannot be washed away by the pardon. Indeed, this is what the United States did recently when a wee rejected the claims in the South China Sea is once and for all to become clean countries so that their citizens private information doesnt end up in the hands of the Chinese Communist party. It demands exertion they will subvert the rulesbased order to societies have worked so hard to build. The childrens children may be at the mercy of the Chinese Communist party. This isnt about containment. Dont buy that. Its about the challenge we never faced before. The ussr is closed off from the free world. The combined economic diplomatic and military power is shortly enough to meet this challenge if we direct it clearly and with great courage. Maybe its time for the grouping of likeminded nations and the alliance of democracies we have the tools and we know we can do it. Now we need the will. To quote scripture i ask is disputed willing but our flesh weak en and of the free world doesnt change, communists china will surely change us. We cant be returned to their past practices because they are comfortable or convenient. Securing the freedoms from the party is the mission of our times and americas perfectly positioned because our founding principles give us the opportunity. As i explained in philadelphia last week, standing and staring at independence hall, the nation was founded on the premise all human beings possess certain rights are inalienable and its the governments job to secure those rights. And its a simple powerful truth. Today the danger is clear and the awakening is happening today the free world must respond. We can never go back to the past. May god bless eacmay god bless d the Chinese People. Thank you mr. Secretary. [applause] please, be seated. He graciously invited some questions. My first question has to do with the context of the president s visit in 1972. You mentioned the soviet union was isolated that it was being this. He went to the peoples republic of china to try and outline and combine interest for them. Does russia present an opportunity now to the United States to coax them into the battle to be relentlessly candid about the Chinese Communist party . I do think that there is that opportunity. It is born o of that relationsh, the natural relationship between russia and china and we can do something as well. There are places we need to work with russia. The we hope that they will change their mind. It is these kind of things these collaborations and strategic challenges that we work alongside russia i am convinced we can make the world safer so i think there is a place for us to work with the russians to achieve a likely outcome of peace not only for the United States, but the world. President nixon also had a lot of personal relationships over many years with individuals that can lead wrong. President bush famously misjudged Vladimir Putin and said so afterwards. You have met him often. As the general secretary of the Chinese Communist party someone with whom we can deal on a transparent and reliable basis in your opiniofor your opinion r personal diplomacy with them . Theyve been good, frank conversations. Hes the most powerful leader of china. He has de institutionalized the Chinese Communist party, thus giving him even more capacity and power. But i think the way to think about it, its about action are they prepared to leave and do the things they committed to and prepared to fulfill their promises, and we watched. We watched them walk away for their promises in the world on hong kong and the attorney present promised in the rosebud he wouldnt militarize the South China Sea. Google South China Sea at arms and you will see another promise broken. So in the end, from my perspective, it is important to watch how the leaders behave and what it is you think when you have the chance to talk with them on the phone or meet them in person. I have read the previous speeches by the ambassador, director, attorney generadirectr and now listened to you very carefully. It is a fairly comprehensive multidimensional relentlessly objective camber. Is that dangerous. The danger comes from. We have the leaders prepared to be honest about things that matter and prepared to talk about the things the nation is prepared to do to secure those interests. You can reduce risk by these conversations so long as youre honest about it. Its been that this trust but verify its speech. When you just trust but verify, but still promises the verification as possible. Its still possible to do agreement and verify them, correct . It is. You can still do it. Each nation has to be prepared for a certain amount of intrusiveness connected to that and its not in the nature of regimes to allothe regimes to aw transparency inside of their country. So its been done before. We have arms control agreements that we got verification sufficient to ensure we protected american interests. I believe we can do it again and i hope that we can do it on these, the Chinese Communist party has several hundred Nuclear Warheads this is a serious global power and to the extent we can find Common Ground and understandings to reduce risk but there is a very bad day for the world we ought to think it is going to require agreement and verification. I saw this morning preparing the communist party if there is apart from the party this is meant to antagonize and make diplomacy impossible. Quite a stance to take unless the goal is to ensure diplomacy fails. Is that your goal . Heres where i will begin. Its a bit patronizing to the people of china to make such assertions that they are not rational people who were given they were made in the image of god but they have all the capacity anybody in the world does, so to somehow think the people of china it seems to me the wrong approach. We will deal with the Chinese Communist party as the head of state or china but it seems to me we would dishonor ourselves and the people of china if we ignored them. There is the ideology of the marxist leninism carried a its gone from our vocabulary. I get in trouble with you when i comment on the media. They believe they have a central understanding of how people interact and how society is about to interact and it is the case that they believe we should acknowledge that we have to respond in a way that reflects our understanding in the way they view the world. I want to talk about the Chinese Media for a moment. They are aggressive to say the least. Is that an example of whats going on and generally Chinese Media has become far more aggressive than i have seen in 30 years since i was at the library the first time watching it. Is that something that youve noticed a wild . Yes, they are very aggressive. Two pieces to this. One i will describe the technology medium. Without singling out any particular business, our view of these companies is we are neither for or against the company thats making sure that we protect the information that belongs to each of you com, your address, all the thing you want to make sure they donthave, we have a responsibility to make sure the assistance they were using dont give them access to that so if its the efforts we made for the work we are doing on other software firms, the task is to protect the American People and their information. The second is the statesponsored media. You should know and this is where im concerned about the media, too. These are the statesponsored media organizations that take their messaging from the party each day. When american institutions pick up the storylines and carry them forward, they are in effect propagating chinese propaganda. There was an editorial in the New York Times yesterday by someone who had a view that was antithetical to the american way of life. They ran it straight up without comment although be it in the opinion section propagating. That is certainly not constructivnotinstructive when e senators from arkansas became not simply talk about American Freedom in that same media outlet. You mentioned specifically hollywood got deep intertwined meant with the chinese economy. The patches are taken off the mavericks jacket. They are not going to be in top gun. What do you say to someone that has a spotlight about the responsibility to be candid about the peoples republic of china . If you claim you care about human rights and social justice or these things and make that point its what they are doing in certain parts of the country that is taking place. Every Business Leader has got to make decisions for themselves and they have to live with the decisions they make i would simply ask this. If you have an entity in the government they were to tell you you could do something but particular symbol in a movie or a particular name on your menu to limit you in that way has got to be difficult to go home at night. Two more questions, mr. Secretary, because it is hot and warm this might be tough for you but they are like athens was a naval power and china is a land power. To bdo we not have to change hoe approach the defense has been in to put more emphasis on the naval resources than on our Army Resources . I will leave the details of this, but i can here is what i can say. When he sent out national the nl Security Strategy early on in the administration for the first time to identify what was fundamentally different than we have ever done for decades, that was important because that was a signal to us whether its the state department of defense or reoriented our assets. So weve seen the department began to do that and these are big things to turn, the budgets are multiyear and it takes a while but if you look at how secretary and President Trump are positioning our military capabilities, not just the tactical observation or strategical us labo but Cyber Capabilities in Space Capabilities if we look how we are thinking about this and spending the resources in the two, three, four and five, youll see that its shifted pretty dramatically. Thats not to say that the efforts to protect are behind us. We still have work to do but there is a great power that presents itself as something weve recognized that we make sure we allocate the taxpayer resources to the appropriate and to achieve american security. The last question is around the former secretary of state, george marshall. He gave a speech in 1947 of your alma mater harvard. He called for all the nations of the world to recognize the world was in crisis and to choose the side. He assured them in that famous address that if you choose the american side in asserting europe, you could count on america. So as you make the bill you did today, not just europe, which relatively easy to be outspoken, no norway found it to be outspoken, but to taiwan and japan and vietnam and all of the australian all of the nations of the region, can they rely on america in the way that people opposing the soviet union could rely on George Marshalls assurance and 47 . Book tv has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Eastern,4 30 p. M. 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