This resource tracked statements, developments, visits, and other interactions in US-Indo-Pacific relations under the President Trump administration. Special focus was given to the comments and activities of President Donald J. Trump; Vice President Mike Pence; United States Trade Representative Ambassador Robert E. Lighthizer; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Jr.; former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; former Secretary of Defense James Mattis; and former Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark Esper.
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Secretary Pompeo With Sean Hannity of The Sean Hannity Show - China
"QUESTION: Now this comes as a bombshell new article from The Washington Post is reporting the U.S. State Department has long been worried about a research facility in Wuhan province in China. According to the Post, State Department officials in China, quote, “sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab which was conducting risky studies on coronavirus.” Washington Post is reporting that. To date, there is no firm evidence that the current pandemic originated in that lab, but questions are…
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Secretary Pompeo With Jack Harris of WFLA-AM Tampa Bay - China
"QUESTION: Let me ask you about China here. How transparent do you think China’s been since the beginning and as of late?
SECRETARY POMPEO: We know how important it is that every country be transparent. Your first question was about when do we come back – your second question was about when do we come back. That turns on data. It means you have to have good, accurate, transparent data. People have to share the number of cases they have, the number of fatalities. Look…
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Secretary Pompeo With Tony Katz of The Morning News - China
"QUESTION: So the question was to – about China and a conversation about whether China should pay for the damage done, a question you’ve been asked before. But I wanted to get a little more specific. Does the State Department believe that China absolutely purposefully engaged a virus, or is there a belief that there was a leak from a virology lab in Wuhan, and China did not let the world know about it until it was too late?
SECRETARY POMPEO: Look, there’s still lots…
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Secretary Pompeo With Julian Reichelt of BILD-TV - China
QUESTION: (Via interpreter) German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has named China and the United States in one breath, has said that China has reacted too authoritative with the crisis, and the United States played down this problem. Does that – does that bother you when the United States and dictatorship China are criticized in one breath?
SECRETARY POMPEO: Well, the two countries have responded very differently for sure. The United States has taken aggressive action. President Trump has led from the front to make sure…
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Remarks by President Trump at Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing - China
"Q So can you explain why it is appropriate, in the middle of a pandemic, to be talking about cutting or eliminating funding for the World Health Organization?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we’re going to talk about the WHO next week in great detail. I didn’t want to do it today — Good Friday. I didn’t want to do it before Easter. I also didn’t want to do it before we have all the facts.
But over the years, many years, we’ve been paying them from…
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Secretary Pompeo With Jeff Katz of The Jeff Katz Show - China
"QUESTION: Excellent. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is joining us this afternoon. Mr. Secretary, can we talk a little bit about the role that the World Health Organization and China have played in this? It just seems to many of us that they’ve never been honest with the outside world related to this, they’re still not being honest, and yet President Trump when he points it out somehow is the bad guy.
SECRETARY POMPEO: Yeah. In a time of crisis, you find out that the…
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Secretary Pompeo With Wendy Bell of The Wendy Bell Show - China
QUESTION: Oh my gosh, it is so great to hear your voice. Can you imagine what you’ve been going through with China, with all of this jazz? I cannot even fathom how busy you’ve been. Tell me what’s going on and the latest in China, because I know you’re calling for transparency, sir, and I’m feeling and a lot of Americans are feeling we’re not getting it.
SECRETARY POMPEO: Wendy, thank you, first of all, for having me on today, and it’s an incredible privilege…
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Secretary Pompeo With Guy Benson of The Guy Benson Show - China
"QUESTION: So I want to ask you about – just changing gears to disinformation, and I saw this tweet yesterday from NBC News here in the U.S. It sort of knocked my socks off a little bit. This was the tweet: “U.S. reports 1,264 coronavirus deaths…over 24 hours. Meanwhile in China, where the pandemic broke out, not a single new coronavirus death was reported,” which is sort of like wow, look at what China’s accomplished, and compared to the U.S., that’s – ooh, maybe we’re…