“Xi Jinping’s real mission was to get me fired”: Former top US official

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Mike Pompeo has said that of the dozens of world leaders he met as US secretary of state, he found “most obnoxious” was Chinese President Xi Jinping, who threatened to stop sending PPF kits to the US if he kept demanding accountability from Beijing. Was. on Covid-19.

The 59-year-old former US Secretary of State Pompeo wrote in his book ‘Never Give An Inch: Fighting for the America I Love’ that he had numerous talks with the Chinese leader and found him “dour” and “the quintessential communist outspoken”. ,

He writes that Xi told stories about Chinese suffering and talked about “seeking revenge for grievances long before any of us were born”.

“Personally, I thought Xi was sad. While Putin could be funny and jovial, while evil, Xi was not so serious, like dead-eyed. I’ve never seen an unexpected smile,” Mr. Pompeo said. The book is written to hit bookstores on Tuesday.

“I also found Xi to be a quintessential communist articulate: heavy on essence, light on the issues under discussion, and always eager to impose his views, even if he pretends to listen to you. He fits the profile of an East German or Sits. Soviet communist I came to study during my army days,” Mr. Pompeo said.

The former US Secretary of State has written about his many meetings with the 69-year-old Chinese leader in the book.

Pompeo noted that Xi spoke in a “hollow tone” and was always looking for words, phrases and archaic Chinese proverbs of questionable clarity.

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

“Of the dozens of world leaders I met, he was the most obnoxious. How’s that for telling the harsh truth? Now having seen the regime materialize at the highest level, I was overwhelmed by how much its leaders were in love with the Chinese people. were different,” Mr. Pompeo said.

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

“I came to love the Chinese people, and I still do. I am saddened that the American model of engagement with China has fostered a regime with such disdain for basic human dignity and has transformed its own people into Marxists. Seen as a quagmire in the system.” of power,” he writes.

Xi, 69, was re-elected last year for a record third five-year term as general secretary of China’s ruling Communist Party, a privilege only granted to party founder Mao Zedong.

Referring to his first meeting with Xi, Mr Pompeo said he shaped him up and told him what he thought.

“It was clear that he wanted to measure me and the Trump team as well. He had already met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in April 2017. On that occasion, Trump revealed that he ordered strikes against Syria And the other target just minutes earlier. Of course, Xi knew this was not Team Obama. My message in Beijing confirmed that,” he said.

In the book, Pompeo writes that at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, Xi told then-President Donald Trump that continued calls for accountability would jeopardize America’s ability to receive personal protective equipment (PPE) shipped from China .

The coronavirus originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in early December 2019 before spreading around the world, killing more than 6 million people globally, affecting businesses.

According to the WHO, as of January 27, 2023, there have been 752,517,552 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 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 does not mean jeopardizing our ability to buy potentially life-saving equipment from China,” Mr. Pompeo writes.

“At the same time, however, I was determined to impose accountability by telling the truth. I knew the CCP was already displeased with me,” he said.

Mr Pompeo said that on March 25, he held a press conference at the State Department and criticized the party over its decision to cover up the global disaster.

He says he suspects his harsh words influenced Trump’s previously scheduled call with Xi the following 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 oriental medicines that he assured us that if Trump needed them, we would have them for COVID-19. remove the symptoms of COVID-19. Yet Xi’s real mission was to get me fired,” Mr. Pompeo writes.

“He raised his voice against me: Pompeo has slandered the Chinese people. Pompeo is antisemitic and boxers for no reason. Pompeo is putting at risk the trade deal we signed two months ago. Pompeo is immature And jeopardizing everything we’ve built together. I’m sure he knew I was on call, so I admired his directness, if not his intent,” she wrote.

Mr Pompeo writes that immediately after the call, Trump called him and said: “My Mike, that f-ing man hates you!”.

“We should chat in the morning, as the hour was late in DC, but I needed to ‘shut the hell up for a while’.” We needed that health equipment from China, he said,” Mr Pompeo writes.

“At his direction, I committed to a temporary rhetorical ceasefire. There was only one moment when I felt my job might be in jeopardy. I watched President Trump over the past three years aim his anger at several cabinet officials But never really worried that I might be in the way. Now it was my turn,” he said.

According to the book, a few days later while Mr. Pompeo was in the Oval Office, Trump came in and saw Xi in person for the first time after calling him.

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

“When I got home that night, I told Susan that my good run may be nearing the end. I will not praise Xi or the CCP for their pernicious lies. Quiet for a while? OK,” Mr. Pompeo Let’s write

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