Here follow some excerpts from a speech about China by Mike Pompeo last week. The US Secretary of State chose as his setting Richard Nixon’s presidential library in California – whether in honour or repudiation, it was not always clear.
“The free world must triumph over this new tyranny”; “the sweet appeal of freedom itself”; “freedom-loving nations of the world”; “the free world is still winning”; “it’s time for free nations to act”. Perhaps fearing that he had buried the lede, Pompeo named the speech itself “Communist China and the Free World’s Future”.
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Janan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.
