Good afternoon. I am Christopher Nixon cox, grandson of president Richard Nixon. And on the half of my family and the board of directors of the Nixon Foundation i want to welcome you to another important event here at the Richard Nixon library, birthplace and use them, the of which is right behind me here. Today we are honored to have secretary of state mike pompeo to have chosen the Nixon Library to make a major speech about u. S. China relations. Like we do so often at the liberia, we are going to begia program with a prayer here would you please remain standing and welcome greg laurie, the Senior Pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship for an invocation. [applause] lets all pray together. Father, were so thankful to live in this country, the United States of america. And one thing we treasure so greatly is the freedom we have from you to pursue life, liberty and happiness. We have the freedom to speak our minds, the freedom to worship and the freedom to proclaim the message that jesus christ died for our sins and rose from the dead, and to give the personal life, liberty and happiness it will put our trust in him. But with 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 we thank you for President Trump 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, this speech, most importantly our nation to you. We ask you to protect, guide and blessed the United States of america. In jesus name we pray. Amen. [applause] thank you, pastor. Lets remain standing as we salute our country. Please, with the presentation of colors and the National Anthem. [background sounds] oh, say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars thro the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . [applause] [background sounds] thank thank you, and you maye seated. And please join in thanking the air force blue eagles honor guard and Senior Airman kayla hyde smith of the air force band of the golden west for the beautiful rendition. [applause] my grandfather station 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 Foreign Policy, and it is fitting that he is here at the nixon president ial liberia and birthplace to discuss the relationship between our two countries today. It is my privilege now to introduce a distinguished statesman, a mayor, a senator, i got on her, old and close friend of my family, the nixon family, who will introduce secretary pompeo. In fact, my family as this old and dear 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 me. I have great pleasure in addition to welcoming all of you to the nixon birthplace and liberia, i have the great pleasure of introducing to you an extraordinary american who is 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 i am welcoming him back home to orange county. [applause] thats right. Mike pompeo was born in orange. [applause] he attended loss amigos high school in Fountain Valley where he was an outstanding student and athlete. In fact, i have it on Good Authority that among the fans of glory days of lobo basketball, a reverent hush the sins on the crowd whenever the name pompeo is mentioned. [laughing] 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 activeduty 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 our reputation as one of the most diligent and astute 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 why an impressive resume. So its said theres only one thing missing, prevents it from being perfect. If only mike had been a marine. [laughing] [applause] dont worry, he will give even. Mike pompeo is a man devoted to his family. He is a man of faith, of the greatest patriotism and the highest principles. One of his most important initiatives at the state department has been the creation of a commission on unalienable rights where i come editions, philosophers and ethicists advise them on human rights grounded in americas founding principles, as a principles of the 1948 universal declaration of rights. He is here today for a very special reason. The epitaph on president nixons greystone is a sentence from his first inaugural address grave stone it says, or, the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. Richard nixon received that title. He won that honor not only because he was acknowledged even by his critics to be a brilliant Foreign Policy 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 decluttering the job done. To the contrary, he knew that piece is always a work in progress. He knew that piece must be fought for and won a new in every generation. It was president nixons vision, determination and courage that opened china to america and to the western world. As president and for the rest of his life, Richard Nixon worked to build the relationship with china based upon mutual benefits and obligations that respected americas bedrock national interests. Today, we in america are obliged to assess whether or not president nixons labors and his 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 relief because it is of critical importance. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome to this podium and to this audience our honored guest, the secretary of state of the United States of america, the honorable and really quite remarkable honorable michael pompeo. [applause] thank you. Thank you all. Thank you, governor, for that very, very generous introduction. It is true, when you walk in that jim and you say the name pompeo, there is a whisper. I i had a brother mark who was really good, a really good basketball player. And how about another round of applause for the blue eagles honor guard and Senior Airman came highsmith and her wonderful rendition of the National Anthem . [applause] thank you, too, to pastor lori that moving prayer, and want to thank hugh hewitt and the Nixon Foundation for your invitation to speak at this important american institution. Its great to be sung to buy an air force person, introduce by marine, and to let the army guy in in front of the navy guys house. Its all good. Its an honor to be here in yorba linda were nixons father built the house in which he was born and raised. To all the nixon center, board and staff are made today possible, its typical in these times, thanks for making this a possible for me and for my team. We are blessed to have some incredibly special people in the audience including chris, who ive gotten to know, chris nixon. I also want to thank tricia nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower for their support of this visit as well. I want to recognize several courageous chinese dissidents who joined as you did and made long trip. I to all the other distinguished guests [applause] to all the other distinguished guests, thank you for being here. For those of you who got under the tent, he must have paid extra. And those of you watching live, thank you for tuning in. And finally as the governor mentioned i was born here in santa anna, not very far from here. Ive got my sister and her husband in the audience today. Thank you all for coming out. I bet you never thought that i would be standing up here. My remarks today on the fourth set of remarks in a series of china speeches as National Security adviser robert obrien, fbi director chris wray, and the attorney general barr to deliver alongside me. We had a very clear purpose, a real mission. It was to find the difference has facets americas relationship with china, a massive imbalances in that relationship that have built over decades, and the chinese kindness parties designs for hegemony. The Chinese Communist partys designs. Our goal was to make clear that the threats to americas that President Trumps china policy aims to address are clear and our strategy for securing those freedoms established. Ambassador brian spoke about ideology. Director wray talk to as peanuts, attorney general barr spoke about economics. And now Michael Heitkamp altogether for the American People into detail what the china threat means for our economy, for our liberty and indeed for the future of free democracies around the world. Next year marks half a century since dr. Kissinger is secret missing to china and the 50th anniversary of president nixons trip isnt too far away in 2022. The world was much different then. We imagined engagement with china. We produce a future with bright promise, with cooperation but today, today were also Wearing Masks and watching the pandemic body cant write because the ccp failed in his promise to the wilbur were reading every morning new headlines of repression in hong kong and in xinjiang. We are seeing statistic of chinese trade abuses the cost american jobs and strike in those close to the economys all across america including here in Southern California and we are watching a Chinese Military that grows stronger and stronger and indeed more menacing. Ill echo the questions bring in hearts and minds of americans from here in california to my home state of kansas and beyond. What do the American People have to show now 50 years on from engagement with china . Did the theories of our leaders that propose a chinese evolution towards freedom and democracy proved to be true . Is this chinas definition of a winwin situation . And indeed centrally, from the secretary of state perspective, is america safer . Do we have a greater likelihood of these for ourselves and peace for the generations which will follow wes . Look, we have to admit a hard truth. We must admit a hard truth that should guide us in years and decades to come that if we want to have a free 21st century, and not the chinese century of which xi jinping dreams, the old paradigm of blind engagement with china simply will not get it done. We must not continue with and we must not return to it. As President Trump has made very clear, we need a strategy that protects the American Economy and indeed our way of life. The free world must triumph over this new tyranny. Now, before i seem too eager o tear down president nixons legacy, i want to be clear that he did what he believed was best for the American People at the time, and he may well have been right. He was a brilliant student of china, a fierce cold warrior, at a tremendous admirer of the chinese people, just as i think we all are. He deserves enormous credit for realizing that china was too important to be ignored, even when the nation was weakened because of its own selfinflicted timeliness brutality. In 1967 and a very famous for affairs article, nixon explained his future strategy. Heres what he said. He said taking the long view, we simply cannot afford to leave china forever outside of the family of nations. The world cannot be safe until china changes. Thus, our aim, to the extent we can, we must influence events. Our goal should be to induce change. And i think thats the key phrase from the entire article, to induce change. So with that historic trip to beijing, president nixon kicked off our engagement strategy. He nobly sought a freer and safer world, and held that the Chinese Communist party would return that commitment. As time went on, american policymakers increasingly present address china became more prosperous it would open up, he would become free at home and indeed present list of the threat abroad. It would be friendlier. It all seemed i am sure so inevitable, but that age of inevitability is over. They can engagement with interesting is not brought the kind of change inside a china that president nixon had hoped to induce. The truth is that our policies and those of other free nations resurrected chinas failing economy only to see beijing bite the International Hands that were feeding it. We opened our arms to chinese citizens only to see the Chinese Communist party export are free and open society. China sent propagandists into our press conferences, our research centers, our high schools, our colleges and even into our pta meetings. We marginalize our friends in taiwan which later blossomed into a vigorous democracy. We gave the Chinese Communist party and the regime itself special economic treatment, only to see the ccp insist on silence over its human rights abuses as the price of admission for western companies entering china. Ambassador obrien kicked off a few examples just the other day. Marriott, american airlines, delta, united all removed references to taiwan on their Corporate Website so as not to aggravation. In hollywood not too far from here, the epicenter of american greed freedom, and selfappointed arbiters of social justice, self centers even the most mildly unfavorable reference to china. This corporate acquiescence to the ccp happens all over the world, too. And how is this corporate frailty worked . Is its flattery rewarded . Give you a quote from the speech that general barr gave, attorney general barr. In a speech last week you said that the ultimate ambition of chinas rulers isnt to trade with the United States. It is to raid the United States. China ripped off our price intellectual property and trade secrets, causing millions of jobs all across america. It sucked supply chains with from america and then added a widget made of slave labor. It made the world key waterways must say for international commerce. President nixon once said he feared he had created a frankenstein by opening the world to the ccp, and here we are. The cold war. Or hoodwinked by beijings stock of a peaceful rise. China is increasingly more aggressive. Donald trump has said enough. I dont think many people on either side of the aisle dispute that but even now some insist we preserve the model of dialogue for dialogues sake. We will keep talking but the conversations are different these days. I travel to honolulu a few weeks back, it was the same old story. Plenty of words but literally no offer to change any of the behaviors. Promises like so many were empty. His expectations i summarize caved to their demands because this is what too many prior administrations have done. I didnt and donald trump wont either. We have to keep in mind the ccp regime is a marxist leninist regime. Xi jinping believes in the bankrupt totalitarian theology, it forms his decadelong desire for global hegemony of chinese we cannot ignore the differences between our country is just as the ccp has never ignored them. My experience in the House Intelligence Committee and two plus years led me to this understanding the only way to truly change communist china is not to act on the basis of how they behave. You can see american policy responding to this conclusion. President reagan use the basis of trust but verify. When it comes to the ccp we must distrust and verify. We the freedo