Mike Pompeo Urges Chinese People to Change Communist Party

WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo identified as on the Chinese persons to change the ruling Communist Party’s course in a speech outlining the Trump administration’s full-throttle reaction to an assertive China.

Chinese chief Xi Jinping is a “true believer in a bankrupt, totalitarian ideology,” Mr. Pompeo said. He stopped shy of explicitly calling for regime alter, urging allied nations and the persons of China to work with the U.S. to alter the Communist Party’s actions.

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