![]() ![]() ![]() US State Secretary Mike Pompeo speaks at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda, California, 23 July 2020. Today, if the US government’s policy towards China is really as Pompeo claims, is this the right decision at the right time, or the wrong conflict at the wrong time? I am more inclined to say the latter. It was because China and the US joined hands that the Cold War ended. The first is generally seen as China and the US fighting the wrong war, at the wrong time, in the wrong place the latter was the right decision made at the right time. One was the Korean War of 1950, and the second was Nixon’s visit to China in 1972. Since 1949, China-US relations have had two major changes. And so, now is the time for Washington to change its strategy towards China, from contact to containment to surround and block China, like what happened with the Soviet Union. The “peaceful rise” that Beijing spoke of is no more. On the contrary, a rising China has started to expand its influence and pose a challenge to other regions. In his speech, Pompeo said former US president Richard Nixon’s policy towards China was a failure, because the past 50 years have shown that China has not changed in the direction that the US expects. Undoubtedly, this puts Pompeo’s speech in the same league as Churchill’s Sinews of Peace speech. On 23 July, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a speech from the Nixon Library in California, which some media have read as a declaration of a new Cold War between China and the US. ![]()
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