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Pompeo urges Biden: Beware of CCP challenges. Don't mind Xi Jinping
Reporter : Li Yun / Editor: Li Quan / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/02/10/a103051338.html / Direct translation
When the former US Secretary of State Pompeo was interviewed on the 9th, he once again reminded the Biden administration to maintain a high degree of vigilance against CCP threats and consider protecting Americans. He urged Biden not to mind Xi Jinping’s feelings.
On February 9, Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News that he did not agree with the Biden administration's remarks on cooperation with Beijing and said that Biden should give more consideration to protecting Americans. Don't worry about how Xi Jinping feels.
Pompeo said, "We must face the challenge that the Chinese Communist Party poses to the United States and the world."
He said that whether it is the death of thousands of people caused by the epidemic, or the CCP’s policies that have destroyed millions of jobs. The CCP stole American things and dumped Chinese products back to the U.S. The CCP military is also working hard to ensure that the CCP can become a great power.
Pompeo reminded the Biden administration that it is still important to make judgments about a country through actions of a country instead of "propaganda."
Pompeo gave a speech to China at the Nixon Presidential Library in California on July 23, 2020. He shared his experience of dealing with the CCP, and the only way to change communist China is not to act based on their words, but based on their actions.
He used President Reagan's words to say, in an attitude of trust, but to verify and verify (Trust but verify), and in the CCP, "we must distrust and verify."
Biden made his first diplomatic speech on February 4, emphasizing the cooperation of allies. The United States has returned and said that the CCP is the most serious competitor of the United States, but it cooperates with Beijing when it is in the interests of the United States.
Pompeo asked the Biden administration on Twitter on the 5th, “Go back to the past when the CCP bullied us? Return to treating Iranian terrorists like friends with money? We can’t afford to return to Obama’s failed foreign policy. We must continue to put the United States first and stand firm in the face of evil."
Republican Senator Tom Cotton also stated that when he was accepted on the 8th, Biden criticized former President Trump’s China policy without outlining his plans, which is not enough. He also urged Biden to recognize that the CCP is a threat.
White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki previously stated that Biden will handle Sino-US relations in a "strategic and patient" manner, and said that Biden will adopt a multilateral approach to contact the CCP.
The former director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, retorted in an interview that intelligence agencies do not recommend that the United States "endure" the CCP, but should act actively. He emphasized that in dealing with the CCP, the policy of appeasement has no way out.
Reporter for News (2) to News (4) : Li Yun/ Editor: Li Quan / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/02/10/a103051191.html / Direct translation
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"Confucius Institute" restricted by Trump, Biden's quiet opening raises concerns
The "Confucius Institute" was revealed to be a weapon for the CCP to penetrate the world, and was connected to the United Front Work Department as a spy agency. During the Trump administration, Confucius Institutes suffered many restrictions and were closed down one after another. However, Biden quietly cancelled this policy after taking office. Aroused the concerns of US lawmakers.
On February 8, the American conservative media "National Pulse" reported that the Trump administration imposed restrictions on Confucius Institutes on December 31 last year, requiring universities with exchange programs and K-12 (high school and kindergarten to grade 12), etc. Educational institutions must show contracts, partnerships or financial transactions with Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms.
However, the records of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) show that Biden quietly cancelled this policy on January 26.
The American news website Campus Reform stated that Biden quietly revoked this policy within a week after taking office.
A spokesperson for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also confirmed to The Epoch Times via email that this policy has been cancelled.
Seth Cropsey, director of the U.S. Center for Sea Power at the Hudson Institute, a U.S. think tank, said he hoped that the Biden administration was not trying to "appease China."
Kropsey said that he hopes that the Biden administration will not act to make the outside world feel that the United States seems to be indifferent to the CCP's "military construction, invasion of neighboring countries, militarization of the South China Sea, and successful theft of intellectual property rights."
Speaking of the Confucius Institute, Kropsey said, "It is not normal to allow an external organization, let alone a country that has a strategically competitive relationship with the United States, to be able to choose a professor in a university. "Doing so also threatens the "academic independence and freedom" of the United States.
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The Confucius Institute is a weapon for the CCP to penetrate the West
Chen Yonglin, the former political consul of the CCP consulate in Sydney, told NTD that the Confucius Institute is a project funded by the CCP government. By spreading the Confucian culture, it can be a weapon for the CCP to infiltrate Western society so as to gain its own interests and achieve its ambition to control the world.
U.S. Human Rights Lawyer Ye Ning said: “Confucius Institutes are part of the CCP’s external propaganda plan. It is the CCP’s weak and strong western power. It is a cultural expansion and infiltration. Through Confucius Institutes, it will influence Western countries, especially the next generation of youth, The impressions and perceptions of the future leaders of all countries in the world about the CCP.
In order to achieve its political goals, the CCP uses the Confucius Institute to organize student rallies and demonstrations against politicians that the CCP does not like visiting other countries. For example, at the University of Paris in France, the CCP organized student demonstrations and forced the French government to cancel the Dalai Lama's visit plan.
Ye Ning said that the CCP has spared no effort to develop the Confucius Institute with its huge financial resources. By 2015, the international opposition to Confucius Institutes has been very loud, but Confucius Institutes are still spreading rapidly. As of December 2018, the CCP had opened 548 Confucius Institutes in 154 countries around the world. The total number of Confucius Institutes worldwide has reached 1.87 million.
In this case, the Confucius Institute is a bit like cancer cells, tumor cells, they develop very fast.
It is understood that the Confucius Institute is under the Hanban of the Chinese Communist Party and is funded by the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda department. Teachers and students are not allowed to talk about the Tiananmen Square incident, Taiwan, Tibet, Falun Gong and other issues.
Now more and more overseas people realize that the Confucius Institute is an important organization of the CCP's united front and calls for a global boycott. (Xing Zhou/Epoch Times)
Confucius Schools in 519 primary and secondary schools in the United States
In 2018, several U.S. Congresses formally proposed the "Foreign Influence Transparency Act." According to the bill, Confucius Institutes must be registered as "foreign agents."
A 2019 investigation report entitled "China's Impact on the American Education System" stated that in the past eight months, the Senate Standing Investigation Subcommittee conducted an investigation of Confucius Institutes and found that the CCP has established Confucius Institutes around the world since 2004. There are more than 100 in the United States.
In addition, there are 519 elementary schools, middle schools and high schools in the United States that have Confucius academies, and students from kindergarten to 12th grade provide Chinese language education. Since 2006, the CCP has invested US$158 million in Confucius Institutes in the United States and has controlled all aspects of Confucius Institutes in the United States, including budgets, personnel, and courses.
According to the report, Global Confucius Institutes are led and supervised by the Office of the Leading Group for International Promotion of Chinese Language under the Ministry of Education of the Chinese Communist Party, and are part of the Chinese Communist Party's extensive long-term strategy. Through the Confucius Institute, Beijing is trying to change the impression of the CCP in the United States and the world, and to conceal the economic and security threats brought by the CCP.
In August 2020, former Secretary of State Pompeo announced that the Confucius Institute US Center was a "foreign mission" and emphasized that American students should learn Chinese and Chinese culture without the manipulation of the Chinese Communist Party.
In October of the same year, before the presidential election, Pompeo asked American high schools, universities and K-12 educational institutions to close Confucius Institutes. He said that the Confucius Institute is actually the CCP’s propaganda organization, and its operation in the United States enables the CCP’s influence to actually exist on American campuses. It must be turned off.
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U.S. Congressman warns Confucius Institutes are infiltrating American schools
Reporter : Li Yun/responsible editor: Li Quan
After the Biden administration withdrew Trump’s policy of restricting Confucius Institutes, U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy reposted relevant reports, criticizing the Biden administration for failing to hold the CCP responsible for covering up the facts when the epidemic spread for a year. Allow the CCP to infiltrate university campuses to reward the CCP.
Senator Marco Rubio also tweeted: The FBI warned that the CCP used Confucius Institutes to infiltrate American schools. But now Biden has quietly withdrawn the rules proposed by the Trump administration, which require schools and universities to disclose their cooperative relationships with these CCP government influence agents.
The chief Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCaul, also said: "The Biden administration quietly withdrew this proposed rule without consulting Congress, sending a worrying signal."
He said that the Biden administration is telling academic institutions that they do not need to be transparent about their relationship with the Chinese Communist regime. He urged the Biden administration to abide by its commitments and regard the CCP as a major threat to US national security, including in the US education system.
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Blinken: Trump's tough China policy is right
Editor : Tang Ying / Reposted from The Epoch Times / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/02/10/a103051147.html / Direct translation
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken once again stated in an interview with CNN on Monday (February 8) that former President Donald. Trump's tough China policy is correct.
When asked, President Joe Biden once said that he will not deal with China issues like Trump does, so what actions Biden might do with China, such as: unfair trade practices or cyber theft of American technology Take a tougher stand?
Brinken replied, "To be fair, President Trump is right to take a tougher attitude towards China (the CCP). That is the right approach. My judgment is that his approach is totally wrong, but the basic principle is correct."
Brinken’s statement is similar to when he attended the Senate nomination hearing.
In an interview with CNN on Monday, Brinken said: “We must confront China (the CCP) in terms of strength. Whether it is confrontational, competitive, or cooperative, all exist for our common interests. We must Respond with strength."
Brinken interpreted the Biden administration’s foreign policy towards China and said: “This means having a strong alliance—this is the source of our advantage—not discrediting our alliance. This means that (we) appear in the world again. In (affair), get involved. Because if we don’t do it, China (the CCP) will fill the space when we withdraw. This means that when we see that the human rights of Xinjiang Uyghurs or Hong Kong’s democracy are violated, we Stand up and defend our values, not abandon them. This means ensuring our military posture to stop aggression, and it means investing in our own people so that they can compete effectively."
"If we do all these things, and all these things are within our control, we can fight China (the CCP) from a strong position." Brinken said.
Since the Biden administration has only recently taken office, its policy of "tolerance" toward China is now more focused on verbal expressions, and there is not much progress in actions.
In general, Brinken’s China policy is still in line with former Secretary of State Mike. Michael Pompeo is similar, and Biden’s policies are similar to Trump’s.
In response to violations of human rights and democracy in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, the Trump administration has previously imposed sanctions on a number of Chinese Communist Party and Hong Kong officials, restricted access to US visas and frozen financial transactions.
The Biden administration has always emphasized the importance of human rights in its foreign policy. When asked by CNN, what proportion of Biden's overall policy toward China will be human rights violations?
Blinken said that President Biden has made it very clear that he hopes and will put human rights and democracy at the center of US foreign policy.
"Whether it is China (the CCP) or any other country that we have deep and serious concerns about, this will be the most important thing." Blinken said.
When he asked him to elaborate on the specific actions that will take place in the next period of time, Blinken replied: “We have these deep concerns. We will take action, but we will also act with other countries, allies and partners; they will work with us. There are common concerns, especially the violation of the human rights of Uyghurs and the violation of Hong Kong’s democracy. During the transfer of power from the United Kingdom to China (the Chinese Communist Party), China made promises regarding the rights of Hong Kong and Hong Kong people. But these promises did not fulfill."
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