Pompeo Celebrates Rights Of The Unborn . . . And He Sure Looks Presidential

By CHRISTOPHER MANION

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came home to Kansas last weekend to receive an award “for heroic service in defense of mothers and their preborn babies across the world.”
Pompeo had served for years as a pro-life representative from Kansas, so it’s no surprise that, as secretary of state, he vigorously enforced President Trump’s expansion of U.S. protection of the unborn at home and abroad — by strengthening the Mexico City Policy established by President Ronald Reagan restricting the use of U.S. taxpayer funding for abortions abroad, as well as by spelling out the truth, vigorously and publicly, about Communist China’s genocidal policies on abortion and both ethnic and religious minorities.
In his remarks to Kansans for Life, Secretary Pompeo praised the group as “the state’s most powerful and respected voice on the life issue. Their long line of accomplishments and successes,” he continued, “prove KFL is the voice we need for the pro-life battles ahead. Each of you needs to redouble your efforts to support KFL, without whose support it is unlikely I would have become a congressman, CIA director, or secretary of state. KFL endorsed me in my first race and was a core part of my success.”
“If we all devote ourselves to this important cause to protect every life,” Pompeo continued, “I am confident that 20, 40, and 60 years from now America will reflect well on us, and our Republic will still stand. There will be many happy lives in the world that would not have been here without your work and that of Kansans for Life.”

The Dismal Track Record Of U.S.-China Policy

Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute in Front Royal, Va., introduced Pompeo. A China scholar, Mosher has written several books on China, the latest of which, Bully of Asia, provides an analysis indispensable to confronting China’s drive for world domination.
In introducing Pompeo, Mosher described the China policies of previous administrations, both Democrat and Republican, as naive. “How naive? Well, let me tell you a story. I once had dinner with President Clinton’s Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and tried to alert him to the danger from a rising China. I told him that we were in a New Cold War, not because we wanted to be, but because Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping had in 1991 declared us to be. If your enemy says that you are at war, then you are probably at war, whether you want to be or not.”
“I suggested to Secretary Christopher that, given the CCP’s long history of broken agreements, that it was foolish to take their word on anything,” Mosher continued. “How did he respond? He dismissed my concerns saying, and I quote, ‘I have found that the Chinese always keep their agreements’.”
We note here that Warren Christopher once served as the chairman of the board of Leland Stanford University, the institution where Mosher was the school’s premier young China scholar forty years ago. He was honored to be selected as the first American researcher allowed into Communist China’s countryside. There, Mosher discovered Communist China’s forced abortion program, details of which he reported to the world as the grisly genocide that it was. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) immediately expelled Mosher from the country, and Stanford followed suit.
When news of Mosher’s academic exile reached Washington, this writer tracked him down and invited him to come in person to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and other key venues, where his testimony produced heated controversy — even then, Communist China had many ideological fans who swooned over the prospect of seeing Communism “work,” for once, somewhere in the world. But his testimony also produced profound results, especially in Reagan’s historic Mexico City Policy.
But Mosher is right. Even during the Reagan administration, the strategic elements of Washington’s China policy were indeed naive. “Secretary Pompeo’s approach to China has, I daresay, been the polar opposite,” he told the Kansan pro-lifers. “Instead of naively trusting China, his approach has been to suggest that we ‘Distrust and Verify’.”

Straight Talk On
China’s Future

Pompeo is “the first secretary of state in the last 40 years to get China policy right,” Mosher said. “This is because he sees China as it really is: a tyrannical Communist dictatorship bent on world domination. And because he understood this, he was able to craft the most sensible and comprehensive policy towards China that we’ve had since we normalized diplomatic relations with Communist China in 1979. It is a hard-headed policy of confronting Chinese aggression across all domains, from the military and economic, to trade and human rights.”
“It is a testament to the success of this level-headed policy that the current administration (who shall not be named) has largely left it in place. They’ve left it in place despite the fact that the President’s own son, Hunter, remains a partner in an investment firm run by the Chinese Communist Party.”
“I often refer to the CCP as the biggest killing machine in human history,” Mosher continued. “Some 80 million Chinese — no one knows the exact number — have been tortured to death, starved to death, or executed over the past 70 years. But that’s not the end of it. We must add to this number the 400 million aborted babies who have been killed over the past 40 years of the one-child policy. 400 million. The Communist Party official who shared this number with me bragged that it was greater than the entire population of the United States.”
“I saw this killing up close and personal,” Mosher continued. “I’m the only Western eyewitness to forced abortions and sterilizations in China. Today, as a result of this wholesale slaughter of the innocents, China’s population is literally dying, filling more coffins than cradles each year. The leadership of the Communist Party is increasingly desperate to raise the birthrate. If you want to know what the future holds for Chinese women, watch The Handmaid’s Tale. My prediction: We will see forced pregnancy in China within the next few years.”
“Yet, even as the CCP is desperate to get the Han Chinese birthrate up, it is equally determined to force the birthrate among China’s minorities down. A Turkish-speaking minority in China’s Far West called the Uyghurs is a particular target. Uyghur women are being forcibly aborted and sterilized as we speak. The poor Uyghurs are also the victims of mass incarceration, forced labor, gang rape, and organ harvesting, to name just a few of the ongoing human rights abuses being committed by the CCP.”

Troubled Times
Challenge America’s Future

With the exit of President Trump and Secretary Pompeo, U.S. foreign policy has taken a tumble. While the Department of Justice and the FBI spend thousands of hours seeking to identify tourists who visited Washington, D.C., on January 6, they ignored their prime responsibility to protect Americans. Their politicized, insouciant incompetence allowed foreign hackers to destabilize the East Coast’s gasoline supply.
Trump’s unique peace through strength policies have been jettisoned, leading to Hamas attacks on Israel, the reemergence of Iran as a regional power, heightened hostility between Russia and Ukraine, and, most of all, the devastating triumph of representatives of Communist China in their meeting with Secretary of State Blinken in Alaska last month.
Meanwhile, the administration’s security, justice, and foreign policy institutions are focused more on racist indoctrination than in defending the American people. As Biden’s batteries run ever lower, an assortment of unelected and radical cabals have moved to the fore as an incompetent White House has faded into insignificance.
For the moment, opposition has proven to be uneven, unfocused, inarticulate, and ineffective. But, as is true with all committed Marxists, persuasion, dialogue, and negotiation are fruitless. These radicals will not stop until we stop them.