chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-01-21 14:43 Share CLOSE FILE PHOTO: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, US, Jan 12, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
Editor s note: On Thursday China announced sanctions against outgoing US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and 27 other officials in Trump administration for seriously violating China s sovereignty and derailing China-US ties. Five experts share their views with China Daily on this issue. Excerpts follow:
Reckoning on Pompeo s personal foreign policy
In the waning days of the Trump administration, especially after the general election results had become clear, then US secretary of state Mike Pompeo started to run the US State Department with a personal agenda, under a personal Cold War mindset, without any regard for long-term US foreign policy interests. Via a blizzard of poisonous measures, many targeting China, he essentially engaged in a spree o