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\"QUESTION:<\/strong> I want to wrap up our time together by returning to the issue of China. Recently you had made the comment that the world has awakened to the threat Beijing poses to international security and the global economy. When we see what\u2019s happened with the coronavirus, when we see the fact that they\u2019re working even into the \u2013 not in only Latin America, but even here in the United States, to undermine America\u2019s republic.<\/p>\n SECRETARY POMPEO:<\/strong> I\u2019ll give you an example. Tomorrow I\u2019m going to travel to Wisconsin, and I\u2019m going to talk about what the Chinese Communist Party is doing right here in the United States. There\u2019s deep connectivity to some of the things we\u2019re seeing happen in our country. And I see it all across the world \u2013 what\u2019s taking place in western China itself, where they\u2019re trying to eliminate those who are not Han Chinese. This is one of the worst human rights violations in recent memory, certainly of this century.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve watched today the challenge that Christians and Catholics have to practice their faith inside of China. The Chinese Communist Party is attempting to rewrite the Bible itself to Sinicize the Christian doctrine. That\u2019s unacceptable. That will diminish the Chinese people, and we want good things for them, just like we want good things for people all across the world. We\u2019ll continue to work hard on this because it\u2019s the right thing for America to do.<\/p>\n QUESTION:<\/strong> When you look at these competing interests, there\u2019s really two global ideologies \u2013 one, I think, represented by China, a totalitarian, repressive view; and you have America, which is an ideal of freedom, of individuality, coming together as one for the betterment of all.<\/p>\n SECRETARY POMPEO:<\/strong> Tony, we see that the world is at a point of tipping. There\u2019s no doubt about that. I remember when the Soviet Union fell, there was this idea that history had been written and authoritarianism had been banished from the world. We can now see that that\u2019s not the case. There is a struggle. The Chinese Communist Party is seeking hegemony around the world, and we have an obligation to do our best to make sure that the freedoms that we value and the capacity to exercise our human rights aren\u2019t trampled upon by whether that\u2019s their predatory economic activity or their military might or their information campaigns here in the United States. If we get it right here, I\u2019m confident that people around the world will join us, that those nations that share our traditions and our Western values will also push back against this threat from the Chinese Communist Party, and we\u2019ll prevail.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a group of people who believe America is declining. I don\u2019t believe that for a single minute. This is a nation that is strong and resilient, and I\u2019m proud to have been part of an administration that has understood that and used America\u2019s capacity and capabilities and power for good all around the world.\"<\/p>",
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