Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's landmark speech at the Nixon library on Thursday marked the most robust call-to-action yet against the Chinese Communist Party.
It's a unique moment because the United States since its rise to global power has never confronted such a potent peer competitor across so many realms: political, economic, technological, military and even societal.
is so perilous because the world's two largest economies – and the two defining countries of their times – are navigating uncharted terrain.at the Nixon library on Thursday marked the most robust call-to-action yet against the Chinese Communist Party. It came amid tit-for-tat consular shutdowns in Houston and Chengdu, and the Friday arrest by the FBI of an alleged Chinese military operative in San Francisco.just last week.
It is also new because the U.S. and China, after four decades of wishful collaboration, are now locked in a contest that could define our times. It isn't a struggle, as the hyperbole would have it, over "world domination," which no country has ever achieved. But it could have significant impact on "world determination," influencing whether democracy or autocracy, whether market capitalism or state capitalism, are the flavors of the future.
For some context to understand the dangers of our times, think of what's coming as an updated version of the period between World War II's end in 1945 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. That Secretary Pompeo chose the Nixon Library for his historic speech was deft staging. Pompeo noted that next year would mark the 50anniversary of Henry Kissinger's secret mission to China, which began Beijing's opening to the United States and the Western world.Nixon in Foreign Affairs in 1967, "We simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates and threaten its neighbors.
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