Mike Pompeo Urges Chinese People to Change Communist Party

WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo identified as on the Chinese men and women to change the ruling Communist Party’s course in a speech explaining the Trump administration’s complete-throttle reaction to an assertive China.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is a “true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology,” Mr. Pompeo stated. He stopped shy of explicitly calling for regime transform, urging allied nations and the men and women of China to work with the U.S. to transform the Communist Party’s habits.

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