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 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 Chris Salcedo of The Chris Salcedo Show, KSEV Houston & Newsmax TV - China
"QUESTION: That’s a good point. Let me switch to the genesis of the pandemic we’re going through right now, which, of course, is China. Have you spoken to your Chinese counterpart? Number one, do they acknowledge that they were less than truthful? What I’ve been saying, they’ve lied to the United States and that they’ve lied to the world, releasing this pandemic. And what about their activities in the South China Sea? As we’re battling COVID-19, is there evidence out there that you have seen…
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Secretary Pompeo with John Fredericks of The John Fredericks Show, WNTW Richmond - China
"QUESTION: Secretary Pompeo’s – it’s always an honor to have you on. I want to start with a question today that I got from an article that was just published, an op-ed in WaPo by Josh Rogin. He has a bombshell story this morning and he’s quoting from State Department cables about the lack of supervision in the P4 lab in Wuhan, specifically about the bat coronavirus research that was ongoing. What can you share with us, Mr. Secretary, concerning that story?
SECRETARY POMPEO: So…
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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 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…
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Secretary Pompeo’s Call with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen
"Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo spoke with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday. Secretary Pompeo and Prime Minister Hun Sen discussed the long history of friendship the United States has offered to Cambodia, especially in the form of development aid since the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations 70 years ago. The Secretary and Prime Minister discussed the importance of Cambodia’s sovereignty as well as ways to strengthen its democratic governance. Secretary Pompeo stressed the United States’ commitment in assisting Cambodia in its response to…