Pompeo urges future US foreign policy be made through 'filter' of China threat

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said President Trump would be remembered for jettisoning decades of wrongheaded bipartisan consensus on China, recalibrating U.S. policy to recognize Beijing as a belligerent regime intent on supplanting America as the preeminent superpower.

In an interview to discuss his tenure as Trump’s top diplomat, Pompeo told the Washington Examiner that the United States is in a stronger position to counter China than four years ago because of key foreign policy decisions made by the outgoing president. Pompeo said Trump’s innovative strategy started with Washington’s crackdown...