Pompeo’s argument was that the CCP is a threat to US and to the free world. The first is “to induce China to change in more creative and assertive ways.” Second is to change the American people and US partners’ perceptions about the Chinese Communist Party. Pompeo outlined several strategic shifts in the US policy. Pompeo blamed the Chinese Communist Party as “Frankenstein” driven by Marxist-Leninist ideology, which has subverted corporate entities all over the world and whose goal is “global hegemony of Chinese communism.” He claimed that General Secretary Xi Jinping is a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology. He highlighted the spread of the pandemic, repressions, and trade abuses as examples of the gap between expectations and reality regarding China. US engagement policy was intended to induce China to change, but Pompeo believes that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used the opportunity to become stronger and more menacing. Pompeo stated that over decades, US engagement policy-introduced by President Nixon in 1972-has built up “massive imbalance,” which, coupled with “Chinese Communist Party’s designs for hegemony” has generated threats to US ideals and the free world. We must not continue it and we must not return to it.” Pompeo said the “only way to truly change communist China is to act not on the basis of what Chinese leaders say, but how they behave.” “We must admit a hard truth that should guide us in the years and decades to come, that if we want to have a free 21st century, and not the Chinese century of which Xi Jinping dreams, the old paradigm of blind engagement with China simply won’t get it done. In a recent speech, Pompeo insisted that the earlier engagement strategy had failed. The US Department of State has been trying to explain China’s threats and clarify a paradigm shift in US strategy to counter those threats and portray Communist Party of China as a major adversary. According to Shira Ovide, a technology blogger, US politicians and big technology companies are fanning China fears in a way that makes it difficult for people to trust them. Not everybody, however, is buying into the US narrative. It has punished Chinese companies involved in island-building campaign in South China Sea suspended relations with Hong Kong accused China of trying to steal technologies and using hackers shown concern about Tik-Tok and WeChat’s corporate ownership and Huawei’s growing clout in the internet. In recent months, US is hitting at the core foundations of China’s rise as a superpower. The relationship between US and China has hit the lowest point since normalization of ties began four decades ago with several episodes exacerbating the situation: COVID 19 and anti-Chinese racism, trade conflict, tensions in South China Sea, battle over technology, expulsion of media workers, expulsion of students, repression of Uighur Muslims, and grievances regarding Taiwan and Tibet.
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