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China threat to free world; US engagement with country has failed: Pompeo

Trump administration sharpens its already harsh criticism of China with distinctly political overtones ahead of November's election

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"The free world must triumph over this new tyranny," he said in speech to an invited audience that included exiled Chinese dissidents.

AP | PTI Washington

4 min read Last Updated : Jul 24 2020 | 9:45 AM IST

The Trump administration took a hammer to one of the most significant Republican foreign policy achievements in the past five decades on Thursday, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declaring US engagement with China a dismal failure.

As the administration sharpens its already harsh criticism of China with distinctly political overtones ahead of November's election, Pompeo traveled to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, on Thursday to pointedly lament that the former president's good and noble intentions in opening China to the world had come to naught and must be abandoned.

Nearly 50 years after Nixon's historic 1972 trip

Topics : United States US China Mike Pompeo China Communist Party Beijing Xi Jinping Joe Biden

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