US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has advocated an end to “blind engagement” with China and reprimanded allies for failing to prevent the prospect of “a Chinese century”, just days after the Trump administration took a historic decision to close down a Chinese consulate in the US.
In a speech given at the family home of former president Richard Nixon — the US president whose 1972 visit to China ushered in a historic thaw in relations — Mr Pompeo said on Thursday that 50 years of engagement had failed.
He called on the free world to join Washington in making an about-turn to “rewrite the imbalances that have grown over decades”.
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