Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that China’s President Xi Jinping is watching “American weakness,” according to the four-star Air Force general, who said America will become the world’s most populous country by 2025. I speculated that we would go to war with the country.
Pompeo attended a “special briefing” to discuss foreign affairs and the release of his new book, Never Give an Inch, when asked about his remarks from General Mike Minihan.
Secretary of State Pompeo said he “takes General Minihan seriously in the sense that he is clearly very concerned that he is not fully prepared to deter the Chinese Communist Party.”
“I think that was really what he was aiming for. It’s hard to set a timeline for these things. He’s saying 2025.”
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Chinese President Xi Jinping waves at an event
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“But make no mistake, Xi Jinping sees America’s weakness. He sees a lack of resolve. If he sees an opportunity, he will seize that very opportunity.”
Minihan, Scott Air Force Base near O’Fallon, Illinois, is in charge of Air Mobility Command, which oversees refueling and transportation-related aircraft. Within two years of his life, he reportedly wrote a memo suggesting war with China.
“My intuition says we’ll be fighting in 2025,” Minihan wrote, and his officers instructed servicemen by “fully understanding that unrepentant lethality is paramount.” He added that he had to
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Former US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo speaking at the FAMiLY Leaders Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, Friday, July 16, 2021. Former Vice President Mike Pence is headlining the evangelical group’s 10th Annual Leadership Summit.
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According to the New York Post, the Pentagon later tried to downplay the memo, with a spokesperson saying Minihan’s comments “do not represent the Pentagon.” [of Defense]view of China. ”
In a “special report,” Pompeo also discussed threats from Iran, but he said he had recently been arrested after three individuals linked to Iran were arrested and indicted in the attempted assassination of an American journalist on the US mainland. He said it was emphasized again.
“We are the regime, the ayatollahs, and now [President Ebrahim] Raisi, the killers of Tehran, we know they are people who want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, and they are happy to target America next,” Pompeo said.
“We know they are trying to attack Americans here. rice field.”
“These are the villains, and our mission set in the Trump administration is to deny their wealth and resources to their ability to commit terrorism and their ability to do the hard work of researching and developing their weapons program. It was to reduce both.”
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Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with Joe Biden (left) at the Great Hall of the People on December 4, 2013
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Rafat Amirov and Khalid Mediyev of Iran, reportedly Azerbaijani citizens living in Yonkers, New York, and Polad Omarov of the Czech Republic have been charged with murder for hire and money laundering, according to the Justice Department indictment. was indicted on
DOJ did not identify the victims by name, only that they are Brooklyn, New York-based journalists and human rights activists with a history of highlighting Iran’s human rights violations and suppression of free expression. clarified.
Journalist Masih Alinejad later admitted he was a victim, saying, “Iran, the country where I was born – the government wants to kill me, but my adopted country wants to protect me.” I will.”
