Pompeo Criticizes ‘Totalitarian’ China as Tensions Escalate
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Secretary of State Michael Pompeo cast China’s leaders as tyrants bent on global hegemony, painting a dark portrait of the country’s direction as tensions soar between the world’s two biggest economies.
President Xi Jinping “isn’t destined to tyrannize inside and outside China forever unless we allow it,” Pompeo said Thursday at the Richard Nixon presidential library in Yorba Linda, California. “Securing our freedoms from the Chinese Communist Party is the mission of our time.”