Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s comments to President Donald Trump on Taiwan should be viewed as a threat and urged Washington to judge Beijing by its actions after last week’s summit in China.
“Make no mistake: Xi Jinping’s statements on Taiwan to President Trump were a threat,” Pompeo wrote on X on May 15. “We need to be clear-eyed about his mission, and prepared to do the necessary to deter Communist China. President Trump gets that.”
Pompeo, who served as CIA director and then secretary of state during Trump’s first term, expanded on that warning in a Fox News interview the same day. Asked whether Americans should believe the commitments Xi made during the summit, Pompeo said Beijing’s follow-through—not the summit language—would be the test….
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