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Don't have to, but unless the policy is seperate the people and the party and win over the people. https://www.state.gov/communist-china-and-the-free-worlds-fu

by balola 6y ago

Don't have to, but unless the policy is seperate the people and the party and win over the people. https://www.state.gov/communist-china-and-the-free-worlds-future/ https://www.state.gov/communist-china-and-the-free-worlds-fu... >He was a brilliant student of China, a fierce cold warrior, and a tremendous admirer of the Chinese people, just as I think we all are. >We must also engage and empower the Chinese people – a dynamic, freedom-loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party. >So to somehow think that we ought to ignore the voices of the people of China seems to me the wrong approach... But it seems to me we would dishonor ourselves and the people of China if we ignored them.

khuey 6y ago
To put it bluntly, MikePompeo is an idiot and that's never going to work.
stale2002 6y ago
> Don't have to, but unless the policy is seperate the people and the party and win over the people. I am not sure why that would be the US's problem. I have no doubt the that CCP will be able to control the media narrative within their own country. I just don't care. That was always going to be the case.
- balola 6y ago
  Isn't this whole new cold war all about the US trying to contain China? the failed "prosperity then freedom" China policy for the past thirty years all about? It's perfectly normal to not care, but "Policy makers" care.
  - stale2002 6y ago
    > Isn't this whole new cold war all about the US trying to contain China? the failed "prosperity then freedom" China policy for the past thirty years all about? It has become clear that China is not on the road towards freedom. That theory failed. And it is because that failed, that we need to take a new approach to things. The way to get China to change, is to pressure them to change. And we can pressure them, with economic pressure, by engaging in some of the same tactics that they use against us. If they are going to defect, eventually we have to respond in kind, in order to not put ourselves at a disadvantage.

by balola 6y ago

khuey 6y ago

To put it bluntly, MikePompeo is an idiot and that's never going to work.

stale2002 6y ago

> Don't have to, but unless the policy is seperate the people and the party and win over the people. I am not sure why that would be the US's problem. I have no doubt the that CCP will be able to control the media narrative within their own country. I just don't care. That was always going to be the case.

balola 6y ago
Isn't this whole new cold war all about the US trying to contain China? the failed "prosperity then freedom" China policy for the past thirty years all about? It's perfectly normal to not care, but "Policy makers" care.
- stale2002 6y ago
  > Isn't this whole new cold war all about the US trying to contain China? the failed "prosperity then freedom" China policy for the past thirty years all about? It has become clear that China is not on the road towards freedom. That theory failed. And it is because that failed, that we need to take a new approach to things. The way to get China to change, is to pressure them to change. And we can pressure them, with economic pressure, by engaging in some of the same tactics that they use against us. If they are going to defect, eventually we have to respond in kind, in order to not put ourselves at a disadvantage.