"Threat From China's Ruling Party Is Very Real," Says Mike Pompeo

The Communist Party of China threat is very real, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, stating that the Trump administration has begun to take all "right actions" to rebalance relations with Beijing in a way that protect and ensure freedom for Americans.

Pompeo also expressed hope that the Chinese will decide that their commitments under the Phase One trade agreement must be honored.

"I will wait and see if they fulfill their obligations there," he said.

"From the United States' national security perspective, the threat that President (Donald Trump) identified when he campaigned in 2015 from the Chinese Communist Party is very real. And so, we have begun to take all the right actions to rebalance this relationship in a way that protects and ensures the freedom of the American people. "

Pompeo told Michael Knowles of The Ben Shapiro Show in an interview.

"You saw it first from the administration in commerce. We had a set of deeply non-reciprocal trade relations where the Chinese Communist Party stole the intellectual property and then turned around and sold it to us, left it with state-sponsored companies, led cyber theft at levels that no other country can match today's scale.

"A huge set of things that destroyed jobs across the United States because that intellectual property is the cornerstone of many good jobs for American workers," he said.

Affirming that Trump has taken this seriously, Pompeo said the stated mission is to ensure that the next century remains a Western, democratic and freedom-loving century like the latter, and not dominated by a model that Secretary-General Xi Jinping , the CCP leader, wants it to be.