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Xi Jinping’s actual mission was to get me fired: Mike Pompeo

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By Press Trust of India: Mike Pompeo has mentioned that among the many dozens of world leaders he met because the US Secretary of State he discovered the “most unpleasant” was Chinese President Xi Jinping, who threatened to cease sending PPF kits to America if it saved asking for accountability from Beijing on Covid-19.

In his e-book titled ‘Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love,’ former US Secretary of State Pompeo, 59, writes that he held a number of interactions with the Chinese chief and located him “dour” and a “quintessential Communist apparatchik”.

He writes that Xi informed tales about Chinese victimhood and talked about his “demands to avenge grievances from long before any of us were born”.

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“Personally, I assumed Xi was dour. While Putin might be humorous and mirthful, even whereas being evil, Xi was not so critical as dead-eyed. I by no means as soon as noticed an unforced smile,” Pompeo writes within the e-book that hit the bookstores on Tuesday.

“I also found Xi a quintessential Communist apparatchik: heavy in the abstract, light on the issues under discussion, and always eager to impose his views, even while he pretends to be listening to you. He fit the psychological profile of an East German or Soviet Communist I came to study during my Army days,” Pompeo notes.

The former US Secretary of State writes within the e-book about his a number of interactions with the 69-year-old Chinese chief.

Pompeo notes that Xi talked in “hollow tones” and was all the time searching for phrases, phrases, and archaic Chinese proverbs of questionable readability.

“My China policy advisor at the State Department, Miles Yu, later told me that CCP leaders in general, and General Secretary Xi in particular, deploy overwrought erudition to play gullible American leaders,” he said.

“Of the dozens of world leaders I met, he was among the most unpleasant. How’s that for telling the hard truth? Having now seen the regime personified at the highest level, I was gripped by just how different its leaders were from the Chinese people,” Pompeo said.

He says a small business he ran in Kansas, with an operation in Shanghai that employed fewer than 15 people, enabled him to travel to China several times in the early 2000s.

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“I had come to like the Chinese individuals, and I nonetheless do. It saddened me that the American mannequin of engagement with China had emboldened a regime with such utter disdain for fundamental human dignity and that considered its personal individuals as cogs within the Marxist system of energy,” he writes.

Xi, 69, was re-elected because the General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China for a report third five-year time period final yr, a privilege solely accorded to social gathering founder Mao Zedong.

Referring to his first assembly with Xi, Pompeo mentioned he sized him up and informed him what he thought.

“It was clear that he sought to take the measure of me and the Trump team, too. He had already met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in April 2017. On that occasion, Trump disclosed that he had ordered a strike against Syria and other targets just a few minutes earlier. Undoubtedly, Xi knew this was not Team Obama. My message in Beijing reinforced it,” he mentioned.

In the e-book, Pompeo writes that on the peak of Covid-19 disaster, Xi informed then-president Donald Trump that continued requires accountability would jeopardise America’s capacity to obtain Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) shipped from China.

Coronavirus originated within the central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan in early December 2019 earlier than spreading internationally, killing over 6 million individuals globally upending companies.

According to the WHO, as of January 27, 2023, there have been 752,517,552 confirmed circumstances of COVID-19, together with 6,804,491 deaths.

“The United States was still in the early stages of understanding what we were up against, and the president made the tough call that putting America first meant not jeopardising our ability to procure potentially life-saving equipment from China,” Pompeo writes.

“At the same time, however, I was determined to impose accountability by telling the truth. I knew that the CCP already was not happy with me,” he said.

Pompeo said that on March 25, he held a press conference at the State Department and tore into the party over its decision to hide a looming global disaster.

He says that he suspects that his harsh words influenced Trump’s previously scheduled call with Xi the next evening, March 26.

“I joined the call from a secure location, while the president was at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It started off cordially, as Xi offered Eastern medicines that he assured us would stem the symptoms of COVID-19, if Trump needed them. Yet Xi’s real mission was to get me fired,” Pompeo writes.

“He railed against me: Pompeo has defamed the Chinese people. Pompeo is antagonistic and a pugilist without reason. Pompeo is risking the trade deal we signed two months ago. Pompeo is immature and jeopardises all we’ve built together. I’m sure that he knew I was on the call, so I admired his directness, if not his objective,” he wrote.

Pompeo writes that soon after the call, Trump called him and said: “My Mike, that f——ing guy hates you!”.

“We ought to chat within the morning, because the hour was late in DC, however that I wanted to ‘shut the hell up for some time.’ We wanted that well being tools from China, he mentioned,” Pompeo writes.

“At his direction, I committed to a temporary rhetorical ceasefire. There was only one moment when I thought my job might be at risk. I’d watched President Trump aim his ire at many cabinet officials over the previous three years, but had never really worried that I could be on the way out. Now it was my turn,” he mentioned.

According to the e-book, a couple of days later when Pompeo was within the Oval Office, Trump walked in, and noticed him in individual for the primary time for the reason that Xi name.

He mentioned: “You guys need to know Xi hates that guy. Mike, you’re putting us all at risk— the PPE, our trade deal. Stop, for God’s sake!”, notes the e-book.

“When I went dwelling that night time, I informed Susan that my good run may be close to its finish. I’d not reward Xi or the CCP for his or her death-dealing lies. Quiet for a time? Fine,” Pompeo writes.

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Jan 30, 2023

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