CHINA
Every week China is committing new human rights abuses domestically and aggressive acts abroad that further destabilize the entire East Asian region. Secretary Pompeo talked about poor Chinese behavior in his recent historic speech in Southern California. He said that if you “look at the Chinese Communist Party today and what General Secretary Xi is doing, you see, whether it is the actions internal to the country, the enormous human rights violations, the way they’re treating the Uyghurs, and even the Mongols of the north and the Tibetans, this is a gross deterioration in basic human rights that General Secretary Xi’s providing for his own people.”
Chinese aggression on the Indian border also is of concern as Beijing has ordered more soldiers to that border than at any time since the early 1960s. Pompeo said this is causing huge problems for other countries in Southeast Asia and their ability to simply exercise their basic rights inside their own economic zones.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
The United Arab Emirates recently made a historic decision to recognize Israel and to come to a common understanding about the real threat to the people of the Emirates. According to Pompeo, this emanates “certainly not from the state of Israel but rather from the Islamic Republic of Iran. These are big global shifts and things President Trump has been leading on for the three and a half years I’ve been part of this administration.” This is a win for the Trump Administration and for movement toward peace in the Middle East and increased security for Israel.
Recognition is a big step toward creating a new path for the first time in 40 years, According to Pompeo. He pointed out that there’s “… a deep recognition that it is no longer… a challenge between the Palestinians and Israel that causes the instability. There’s a recognition that the challenge comes from the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
BELARUS
There was a fraudulent election in Belarus. It concerns the United States and most of the Western world. What is happening there is what’s happening in places like Lebanon and Iraq, according to Pompeo. “People are standing up and saying, ‘Hey, we’ve just had enough’.” The Belarus population, he said, is demanding that they no longer be treated in the way that communist regimes have treated people for so long.
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At the recent OSCE meeting, Deputy Secretary delivered remarks reinforcing the US position on Belarus and called for an immediate end to the violence against the Belarusian people and the release of all those unjustly detained, including American citizen Vitali Shkliarov. He emphasized that the people of Belarus must be provided the self-determination to choose their own leaders through a truly free and fair election under independent observation.
IRAN
Two of the world’s greatest violators of basic human rights, Iran and China, just signed a 25-year strategic partnership. This nuclear deal allows the Iranians to buy and sell weapons starting in six weeks. Pompeo said it was crazy and that “It’s unsafe; it’s destabilizing… one of the countries that would like to sell weapons to Iran would be China. They’ll make a lot of money off of it.”
According to Pompeo, the United States needs to prevent this from happening. The world, he said, should know that if China choose “to violate the sanctions that we have imposed against Iran, that we’ll hold everyone accountable.”
DARIA NOVAK served in the United States State Department during the Reagan Administration, and currently is on the Board of the American Analysis of News and Media Inc., which publishes usagovpolicy.com and the New York Analysis of Policy and Government. Each Saturday, she presents key updates on U.S. foreign policy from the State Department.
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