US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, on July 23. Pompeo’s rhetoric around China and the Communist Party suggests little in the way of new ideas since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Photo: Reuters
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, on July 23. Pompeo’s rhetoric around China and the Communist Party suggests little in the way of new ideas since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Photo: Reuters
Tom Plate
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Tom Plate

US-China relations: Pompeo speech shows few new ideas towards the ‘evil empire’

  • US secretary of state’s recycling of the Reagan-era phrase shows some ideas are just too good to retire, especially in the absence of new ones
  • Neither China nor the US appear to care what anyone thinks any more, leading to a perfect storm of distrust and failures of communication

Tom Plate
Tom Plate

Updated: 5:32am, 28 Jul, 2020

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, on July 23. Pompeo’s rhetoric around China and the Communist Party suggests little in the way of new ideas since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Photo: Reuters
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, on July 23. Pompeo’s rhetoric around China and the Communist Party suggests little in the way of new ideas since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Photo: Reuters
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