On July 23, at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo implored democracies to work together to defend against expansive threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), calling it a choice between “freedom and tyranny” in his speech on communist China.
Pompeo said that in the more than four decades since the United States normalized relations with the CCP, China has not liberalized as many had hoped.
