China complains about videos in which former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls out the Communist Chinese Party



The Chinese embassy in the U.S. issued a letter complaining about videos from the Hudson Institute's China Center in which former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke out against the Communist Chinese Party.

"The CCP wants me to stop speaking the truth. Ain’t gonna happen," Pompeo tweeted on Tuesday.

\u201cHere\u2019s my @HudsonInstitute video series that the CCP loathes. And there\u2019s more to come\u2026\n\nhttps://t.co/Q192cQfo4S\u201d
— Mike Pompeo (@Mike Pompeo) 1664893841

Pompeo's post included a photo of a letter in which the Chinese embassy in the U.S. complained about the videos and claimed that the Communist Party of China has benefitted the nation's people.

In the Hudson Institute videos, Pompeo called out the communist Chinese regime for being against the people of China.

"The Chinese Communist Party doesn't represent the Chinese people," Pompeo says in the first video, which also includes English and what appears to be Chinese text of his remarks on the screen. "The CCP is a one-party, totalitarian, political organization committed to a foreign, anti-Chinese ideology. It started out as a group of brutal, radical extremists. And frankly, not much has changed."

"There is no bigger enemy for the CCP than you, the Chinese people," Pompeo declared. He also said that "what the CCP truly cares about is maintaining their stranglehold over the Chinese people."

So far, the video has amassed more than 53,000 views on YouTube.

The Chinese Communist Party Does Not Represent the Chinese People www.youtube.com

The letter from the Chinese embassy claimed that Pompeo had "made groundless accusation against the Communist Party of China."

"The CPC is founded for the people and nurtured by the people. The leadership of the CPC is the choice of history and of the people, and is endorsed in China's Constitution. China's development would never have been possible without the leadership of the CPC. Under its leadership, the Chinese people have, through arduous struggle and hard work, established the People's Republic of China and freed themselves from bullying, oppression and subjugation," the note claimed.

Pompeo served CIA director during a portion of President Donald Trump's tenure before moving on to serve as secretary of state. Prior to those roles, he had served as a congressman from Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives. He appears to be open to the possibility of mounting a White House bid.

"So the decision about what I'll do next, the place I'll find myself whether that's helping someone run for president or putting myself forward as a candidate, ah, will depend on my judgment about the most effective way to deliver what the American people deserve," Pompeo said last month.

The Chinese Communist Party Does Not Represent the Chinese People www.youtube.com

Mike Pompeo receives millions of dollars in security each month due to 'serious and credible' threats from Iran



Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top aide while out of office are receiving millions of dollars worth of security from the State Department due to “serious and credible” threats from Iran.

The Associated Press reported that the U.S. State Department is paying more than $2 million per month to provide Pompeo and his former aide, Brian Hook, with 24-hour security.

The State Department told Congress that it cost $13.1 million to protect both men from August 2021 to February 2022.

The State Department’s recently published 2022 Annual Threat Assessment detail these expenses, according to CBS News.

Pompeo and Hook were key actors in the Trump administration’s campaign of “maximum pressure” against Iran and, as such, have received intense death threats on a regular basis.

American intelligence assesses that the threats to their lives have remained constant since they left government and could intensify. Despite the Biden administration renewing negotiations with Iranian officials over the previously scrapped 2015 nuclear agreement, the threats against Pompeo and Hook have persisted.

As a former secretary of state, Pompeo was given 180 days of round-the-clock protection by the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security after leaving office. But according to a recent report, the current Secretary of State Antony Blinken opted to extend the security detail in 60-day increments due to “a serious and credible threat from a foreign power or agent of a foreign power arising from duties performed by former Secretary Pompeo while employed by the department.”

Hook — who worked closely with Pompeo to impose crippling sanctions upon Iran — was also granted this special protection by Blinken upon leaving government service.

Hook has been receiving 60-day security extensions similar to Pompeo.

The latest 60-day extension will soon expire and the State Department, along with the Director of National Intelligence, must determine by March 16 if the federal government should extend protections once more.

Current U.S. officials have said that the threats against Pompeo and Hook have been discussed in the renewed nuclear discussions.

In these discussions, Iranian diplomats are demanding the removal of all sanctions placed upon Iran by the Trump administration. This includes removing the label of “foreign terrorist organization” from the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

These discussions have been paused in recent weeks as the Russian diplomatic envoy mediating the discussions raised concerns over Western sanctions on Russia in response to the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

U.S. officials suggest that Iranian attempts to harass, intimidate, and harm American officials and journalists could continue.

China slaps Trump administration officials with sanctions as they exit office



China showed its disdain for the Trump administration — which adopted a tough stance against the communist country over the last four years — by imposing sanctions on more than two dozen former Trump officials just minutes after they left office Wednesday.

What are the details?

Beijing issued a statement shortly after President Joe Biden had been sworn into office announcing sanctions against several former officials such as Trump's secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, his trade adviser, Peter Navarro, and his national security adviser, Robert O'Brien.

Others hit with sanctions were Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, his top diplomat for Asia, David Stilwell, his Health and Human Services secretary, Alex Azar, former national security adviser, John Bolton, and former political strategist, Steve Bannon.

While the sanctions are largely symbolic, the Associated Press noted that they "underscore Beijing's antipathy toward a U.S. administration it regarded as hostile."

In the statement, the Chinese foreign ministry said: "Over the past few years, some anti-China politicians in the United States, out of their selfish political interests and prejudice and hatred against China and showing no regard for the interests of the Chinese and American people, have planned, promoted and executed a series of crazy moves which have gravely interfered in China's internal affairs, undermined China's interests, offended the Chinese people, and seriously disrupted China-U.S. relations."

According to the foreign ministry, those listed in the statement, along with their immediate family members, are "prohibited from entering the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao of China" and the "companies and institutions associated with them are also restricted from doing business with China."

What else?

At around the same time the sanctions were announced, Chinese state-run media, Xinhua News, tweeted a similarly contemptuous message on Twitter, saying, "Good Riddance, Donald Trump!"

Good Riddance, Donald Trump! https://t.co/kYNQ0jTCfH https://t.co/UoDm8RIT6V
— China Xinhua News (@China Xinhua News)1611129597.0

The Trump administration took a more adversarial approach to China than past administrations, opting to respond in kind to Chinese tariffs on American goods, launching a trade war that lasted most of Trump's presidency and ended in the Phase One trade agreement. More recently, Trump's Justice Department launched the "China Initiative" aimed at upending the communist country's covert activities in the U.S.

As Trump's term drew to a close, relations between the countries soured even more as Trump refused to overlook China's lies and mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, which in all likelihood accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab before killing more than 400,000 in the U.S. and 2 million people worldwide.

Then on Tuesday, in his last full day in office, Pompeo officially determined that China's "morally repugnant" treatment of the Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in the country's Xinjiang region amounts to "genocide."

Sec. of State Mike Pompeo determines China’s crimes against Uighurs amount to ‘genocide’



U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has determined that China's "morally repugnant" treatment of the predominantly Muslim Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in the country's Xinjiang region amounts to "crimes against humanity" and "genocide."

Pompeo made the official determination in a State Department news release Tuesday, just one day before President-elect Joe Biden's administration assumes power.

The Associated Press reported that the Biden administration has not publicly commented on the news yet, but noted Biden and members of his national security team have in the past expressed support for such a designation.

"After careful examination of the available facts, I have determined that since at least March 2017, the People's Republic of China (PRC), under the direction and control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has committed crimes against humanity against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other members of ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang," Pompeo wrote in the news release.

"These crimes are ongoing and include: the arbitrary imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty of more than one million civilians, forced sterilization, torture of a large number of those arbitrarily detained, forced labor, and the imposition of draconian restrictions on freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, and freedom of movement," he continued.

"In addition, after careful examination of the available facts, I have determined that the PRC, under the direction and control of the CCP, has committed genocide against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang," Pompeo added. "I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state."

Starting in 2017, reliable reports of ethnic cleansing and forced sterilization of Uighurs in Xinjiang started spreading, but Chinese officials continued to deny the accusations and hindered international observers from accessing the region.

Last summer, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 13 tons of human hair from China that the agency said pointed to "potential human right abuses of forced child labor and imprisonment" of the Uighur population.

Also last summer, even after being confronted with damning and disturbing drone footage showing hundreds of Uighurs with shaved heads being led bound and blindfolded onto trains by soldiers, the Chinese ambassador to the U.K. still denied claims of ethnic cleansing.

The determination from the State Department is the strongest denunciation made by any country regarding China's actions and the latest in a series of blows the Trump administration has dealt against China of late. The move may also open the door to stricter sanctions against China under the Biden administration.

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