TRUMP ON CHINA • PUTTING AMERICA FIRST
in Beijing and is the proud heritage of the Chinese people. He demonstrated that Chinese history contains another path for China’s people.
Next, I explained the ideology and global ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party to a business forum in Phoenix, Arizona. Many in the West, especially in the business community, are not aware that China today is one of the last few Marxist-Leninist nations on earth.
FBI Director Wray followed with an exposé of the pervasiveness of the People’s Republic of China’s espionage and intellectual property theft from our government, our companies, and our partners. He noted that such theft constitutes one of the greatest wealth transfers in human history.
Attorney General Barr, for his part, warned the American business community of its obligation to protect our national security notwithstanding the blandishments of the Party and the lure of the Chinese market.
Secretary Pompeo concluded the series by outlining what has become the most significant shift in U.S. foreign policy in a generation. America’s diplomats and policy makers, he explains are rising to China’s once-in-a-generation challenge and confronting the threat across the entire diplomatic spectrum.
President Trump’s two speeches, from May and September 2020, hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the Covid-19 pandemic. The President made clear that Beijing’s blunders no longer affect only the Chinese people, as they did under Mao Zedong. They impact the entire world. President Trump points out that beyond the Covid-19 pandemic, China’s environmental devastation in the Pacific and illegal over-fishing in every ocean are but two examples of how China treats the rest of the world.
On the occasion of China’s ending of the “one country, two systems” construct that had guaranteed Hong Kong’s freedom until 2047, the
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