Mike Pence - Policy Towards China 20181004
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Vice President Mike Pence's Remarks on the Administration's Policy Towards
China October 4 Event
Thank you, Ken, for that kind introduction. To the Members of the Board of
Trustees, to Dr. Michael Pillsbury, to our distinguished guests,
and to all of you who, true to your mission,in this place “think about the
future in unconventional ways” – it’s an honor to be back at the Hudson
Institute.
For more than half a century, this Institute has dedicated itself to
“advancing global security, prosperity, and freedom.” And while Hudson’s
hometowns have changed over the years, one thing has held constant:
You have always advanced that vital truth, that American leadership lights
the way.
And today, I bring greetings from a champion of American leadership, at home
and abroad – the 45th President of the United States of America, President
Donald Trump.
From early in this administration, President Trump has made our relationship
with China and President Xi a priority. On April 6th of last year, President
Trump welcomed President Xi to Mar-A-Lago. On November 8th of last year,
President Trump traveled to Beijing, where China’s leader welcomed him warmly.
Over the course of the past 2 years, our President has forged a strong
personal relationship with the president of the People’s Republic of China,
and they’ve worked closely on issues of common interest, most importantly
the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula…
But I come before you today because the American people deserve to know… as
we speak, Beijing is employing a whole-of-government approach, using political,
economic, and military tools, as well as propaganda, to advance its influence
and benefit its interests in the United States.
China is also applying this power in more proactive ways than ever before,
to exert influence and interfere in the domestic policy and politics of our
country.
Under our administration, we’ve taken decisive action to respond to China
with American leadership, applying the principles, and the policies,
long advocated in these halls.
In the “National Security Strategy” that President Trump released last
December, he described a new era of “great power competition.” Foreign
nations have begun to “reassert their influence regionally and globally,”
and they are “contesting [America’s] geopolitical advantages and trying
to change the international order in their favor.”
In this strategy, President Trump made clear that the United States of America
has adopted a new approach to China. We seek a relationship grounded in
fairness, reciprocity, and respect for sovereignty, and we have taken strong
and swift action to achieve that goal.
As the President said last year on his visit to China, “we have an
opportunity to strengthen the relationship between our two countries and
improve the lives of our citizens.” Our vision of the future is built on the
best parts of our past, when America and China reached out to one another in
a spirit of openness and friendship…
When our young nation went searching in the wake of the Revolutionary War for
new markets for our exports, the Chinese people welcomed Americans traders
laden with ginseng and fur…
When China suffered through indignities and exploitation during her so-called
“Century of Humiliation,” America refused to join in, and advocated the
“Open Door” policy, so that we could have freer trade with China, and
preserve their sovereignty…
When American missionaries brought the good news to China’s shores, they
were moved by the rich culture of an ancient but vibrant people, and not only
did they spread faith; they also founded some of China’s first and finest
universities…
When the Second World War arose, we stood together as allies in the fight
against imperialism… And in that war’s aftermath, America ensured that
China became a Charter member of the United Nations, and a great shaper of
the post-war world.
But soon after it took power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party began to
pursue authoritarian expansionism. Only five years after our nations had
fought together, we fought each other, on the mountains and in the valleys of
the Korean Peninsula. My own father saw combat on those frontlines of freedom.
Not even the brutal Korean War could diminish our mutual desire to restore
the ties that for so long bound us together. China’s estrangement from the
United States ended in 1972, and soon after, we re-established diplomatic
relations, began to open our economies to one another, and American
universities began training a new generation of Chinese engineers, business
leaders, scholars, and officials.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, we assumed that a free China was
inevitable. Heady with optimism, at the turn of the 21st Century, America
agreed to give Beijing open access to our economy, and bring China into the
World Trade Organization.
Previous administrations made this choice in the hope that freedom in China
would expand in all forms – not just economically, but politically, with a
newfound respect for classical liberal principles, private property,
religious freedom, and the entire family of human rights… but that hope has
gone unfulfilled.
The dream of freedom remains distant for the Chinese people. And while
Beijing still pays lip service to “reform and opening,” Deng Xiaoping’s
famous policy now rings hollow.
Over the past 17 years, China’s GDP has grown 9-fold; it has become the
second-largest economy in the world. Much of this success was driven by
American investment in China. And the Chinese Communist Party has also used
an arsenal of policies inconsistent with free and fair trade, including
tariffs, quotas, currency manipulation, forced technology transfer,
intellectual property theft, and industrial subsidies doled out like candy,
to name a few. These policies have built Beijing’s manufacturing base,
at the expense of its competitors – especially America.
China’s actions have contributed to a trade deficit with the United States
that last year ran to $375 billion – nearly half of our global trade deficit.
As President Trump said just this week, “we rebuilt China” over the last 25
years.
Now, through the “Made in China 2025” plan, the Communist Party has set its
sights on controlling 90% of the world’s most advanced industries, including
robotics, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence. To win the commanding
heights of the 21st Century economy, Beijing has directed its bureaucrats and
businesses to obtain American intellectual property – the foundation of our
economic leadership – by any means necessary.
Beijing now requires many American businesses to hand over their trade
secrets as the cost of doing business in China. It also coordinates and
sponsors the acquisition of American firms to gain ownership of their
creations. Worst of all, Chinese security agencies have masterminded the
wholesale theft of American technology – including cutting-edge military
blueprints.
And using that stolen technology, the Chinese Communist Party is turning
plowshares into swords on a massive scale…
China now spends as much on its military as the rest of Asia combined, and
Beijing has prioritized capabilities to erode America’s military advantages –
on land, at sea, in the air, and in space. China wants nothing less than to
push the United States of America from the Western Pacific and attempt to
prevent us from coming to the aid of our allies.
Beijing is also using its power like never before. Chinese ships routinely
patrol around the Senkaku Islands, which are administered by Japan.
And while China’s leader stood in the Rose Garden of the White House in 2015
and said that his country had “no intention to militarize the South China
Sea,” today, Beijing has deployed advanced anti-ship and anti-air missiles
atop an archipelago of military bases constructed on artificial islands.
China’s aggression was on display this week, when a Chinese naval vessel
came within 45 yards of the USS Decatur as it conducted freedom-of-navigation
operations in the South China Sea, forcing our ship to quickly maneuver to
avoid collision. Despite such reckless harassment, the United States Navy
will continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows and
our national interests demand. We will not be intimidated; we will not stand
down.
America had hoped that economic liberalization would bring China into greater
partnership with us and with the world. Instead, China has chosen economic
aggression, which has in turn emboldened its growing military.
Nor, as we hoped, has Beijing moved toward greater freedom for its people.
For a time, Beijing inched toward greater liberty and respect for human rights,
but in recent years, it has taken a sharp U-turn toward control and oppression.
Today, China has built an unparalleled surveillance state, and it’s growing
more expansive and intrusive – often with the help of U.S. technology.
The “Great Firewall of China” likewise grows higher, drastically restricting
the free flow of information to the Chinese people. And by 2020, China’s
rulers aim to implement an Orwellian system premised on controlling virtually
every facet of human life – the so-called “social credit score.”
In the words of that program’s official blueprint, it will “allow the
trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven, while making it hard for the
discredited to take a single step.”
And when it comes to religious freedom, a new wave of persecution is crashing
down on Chinese Christians, Buddhists, and Muslims…
Last month, Beijing shut down one of China’s largest underground churches.
Across the country, authorities are tearing down crosses, burning bibles,
and imprisoning believers. And Beijing has now reached a deal with the
Vatican that gives the avowedly atheist Communist Party a direct role in
appointing Catholic bishops. For China’s Christians, these are desperate
times.
Beijing is also cracking down on Buddhism. Over the past decade, more than
150 Tibetan Buddhist monks have lit themselves on fire to protest China’s
repression of their beliefs and culture. And in Xinjiang, the Communist Party
has imprisoned as many as one million Muslim Uyghurs in government camps
where they endure around-the-clock brainwashing. Survivors of the camps have
described their experiences as a deliberate attempt by Beijing to strangle
Uyghur culture and stamp out the Muslim faith.
But as history attests, a country that oppresses its own people rarely stops
there. Beijing also aims to extend its reach across the wider world.
As Hudson’s own Dr. Michael Pillsbury has said, “China has opposed the
actions and goals of the U.S. government. Indeed, China is building its own
relationships with America’s allies and enemies that contradict any peaceful
or productive intentions of Beijing.”
In fact China uses so-called “debt diplomacy” to expand its influence.
Today, that country is offering hundreds of billions of dollars in
infrastructure loans to governments from Asia to Africa to Europe to even
Latin America. Yet the terms of those loans are opaque at best, and the
benefits flow overwhelmingly to Beijing.
Just ask Sri Lanka, which took on massive debt to let Chinese state companies
build a port with questionable commercial value. Two years ago, that country
could no longer afford its payments – so Beijing pressured Sri Lanka to
deliver the new port directly into Chinese hands. It may soon become a
forward military base for China’s growing blue-water navy.
Within our own hemisphere, Beijing has extended a lifeline to the corrupt and
incompetent Maduro regime in Venezuela, pledging $5 billion in questionable
loans that can be repaid with oil. China is also that country’s single
largest creditor, saddling the Venezuelan people with more than $50 billion
in debt. Beijing is also corrupting some nations’ politics by providing
direct support to parties and candidates who promise to accommodate China’s
strategic objectives…
And since last year, the Chinese Communist Party has convinced 3 Latin
American nations to sever ties with Taipei and recognize Beijing.
These actions threaten the stability of the Taiwan Strait – and the United
States of America condemns these actions. And while our administration will
continue to respect our One China Policy, as reflected in the three joint
communiques and the Taiwan Relations Act, America will always believe
Taiwan’s embrace of democracy shows a better path for all the Chinese
people.(clap)
These are only a few of the ways that China has sought to advance its
strategic interests across the world, with growing intensity and
sophistication. Yet previous administrations all but ignored China’s actions
– and in many cases, they abetted them. But those days are over.
Under President Trump’s leadership, the United States of America has been
defending our interests with renewed American strength…
We’ve been making the strongest military in the history of the world
stronger still. Earlier this year, the President signed into law the largest
increase in our national defense since the days of Ronald Reagan –
$716 billion to extend our military dominance in every domain.
We’re modernizing our nuclear arsenal, we’re fielding and developing new
cutting-edge fighters and bombers, we’re building a new generation of
aircraft carriers and warships, and we’re investing as never before in our
Armed Forces. This includes initiating the process to establish the United
States Space Force to ensure our continued dominance in space, and
authorizing increased capability in the cyber world to build deterrence
against our adversaries.
And at President Trump’s direction, we’re also implementing tariffs on $250
billion in Chinese goods, with the highest tariffs specifically targeting the
advanced industries that Beijing is trying to capture and control.
And the President has also made clear that we’ll levy even more tariffs,
with the possibility of substantially more than doubling that number,
unless a fair and reciprocal deal is made.
Our actions have had a major impact. China’s largest stock exchange fell by
25% in the first 9 months of this year, in large part because our
administration has stood up to Beijing’s trade practices.
As President Trump has made clear, we don’t want China’s markets to suffer.
In fact, we want them to thrive. But the United States wants Beijing to
pursue trade policies that are free, fair, and reciprocal...
Sadly, China’s rulers have refused to take that path – so far. The American
people deserve to know that, in response to the strong stand that President
Trump has taken, Beijing is pursuing a comprehensive and coordinated campaign
to undermine support for the President, our agenda, and our nation’s most
cherished ideals.
I want to tell you today what we know about China’s actions – some of which
we’ve gleaned from intelligence assessments, some of which are publicly
available. But all of which is fact.
As I said before, Beijing is employing a whole-of-government approach to
advance its influence and benefit its interests. It’s employing this power
in more proactive and coercive ways to interfere in the domestic policies and
politics of the United States.
The Chinese Communist Party is rewarding or coercing American businesses,
movie studios, universities, think tanks, scholars, journalists, and local,
state, and federal officials.
Worst of all, China has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence
American public opinion, the 2018 elections, and the environment leading into
the 2020 presidential elections…
To put it bluntly, President Trump’s leadership is working; and China wants
a different American President.
China is meddling in America’s democracy. As President Trump said just last
week, we have “found that China has been attempting to interfere in our
upcoming 2018 [midterm] election[s].”
Our intelligence community says that “China is targeting U.S. state and
local governments and officials to exploit any divisions between federal and
local levels on policy. It’s using wedge issues, like trade tariffs, to
advance Beijing’s political influence.”
In June, Beijing circulated a sensitive document, entitled “Propaganda and
Censorship Notice,” that laid out its strategy. It states that China must
“strike accurately and carefully, splitting apart different domestic groups”
in the United States.
To that end, Beijing has mobilized covert actors, front groups, and propaganda
outlets to shift Americans’ perception of Chinese policies. As a senior
career member of our intelligence community recently told me,
what the Russians are doing pales in comparison to what China is doing across
this country.
Senior Chinese officials have also tried to influence business leaders to
condemn our trade actions, leveraging their desire to maintain their
operations in China. In one recent example, they threatened to deny a
business license for a major U.S. corporation if it refused to speak out
against our administration’s policies.
And when it comes to influencing the midterms, you need only look at Beijing’s
tariffs in response to ours. They specifically targeted industries and states
that would play an important role in the 2018 election. By one estimate, more
than 80% of U.S. counties targeted by China voted for President Trump in 2016;
now China wants to turn these voters against our administration.
And China is also directly appealing to the American voter. Last week, the
Chinese government paid to have a multipage supplement inserted into the Des
Moines Register – the paper of record in the home state of our Ambassador to
China, and a pivotal state in 2018. The supplement, designed to look like
news articles, cast our trade policies as reckless and harmful to Iowans.
Fortunately, Americans aren’t buying it. For example: American farmers are
standing with this President and are seeing real results from the strong
stands that he’s taken, including this week’s U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
where we’ve substantially opened North American markets to U.S. products –
a great win for American farmers and manufacturers.
But China’s actions aren’t focused solely on influencing our policies and
politics. Beijing is also taking steps to exploit its economic leverage, and
the allure of China’s large domestic market, to advance its influence over
American corporations.
Beijing now requires American joint ventures that operate in China to
establish “party organizations” within their company, giving the Communist
Party a voice – and perhaps a veto – in hiring and investment decisions.
Chinese authorities have also threatened U.S. companies that depict Taiwan as
a distinct geographic entity, or that stray from Chinese policy on Tibet.
Beijing compelled Delta Airlines to publicly apologize for not calling Taiwan
a “province of China” on its website. It also pressured Marriott to fire a
U.S. employee who liked a tweet about Tibet.
Beijing routinely demands that Hollywood portray China in a strictly positive
light, and it punishes studios and producers that don’t.
Beijing’s censors are quick to edit or outlaw movies that criticize China,
even in minor ways. “World War Z” had to cut the script’s mention of a
virus originating in China. “Red Dawn” was digitally edited to make the
villains North Korean, not Chinese.
Beyond business, the Chinese Communist Party is spending billions of dollars
on propaganda outlets in the United States, as well as other countries.
China Radio International now broadcasts Beijing-friendly programming on over
30 U.S. outlets, many in major American cities. The China Global Television
Network reaches more than 75 million Americans – and it gets its marching
orders directly from its Communist Party masters. As China’s top leader put
it during a visit to the network’s headquarters, “The media run by the
Party and the government are propaganda fronts and must have the Party as
their surname.”
That’s why, last month, the Department of Justice ordered that network to
register as a foreign agent.
The Communist Party has also threatened and detained the Chinese family
members of American journalists who pry too deep. And it has blocked the
websites of U.S. media organizations and made it harder for our journalists
to get visas. This happened after the New York Times published investigative
reports about the wealth of some of China’s leaders.
But the media isn’t the only place where the Chinese Communist Party seeks
to foster a culture of censorship. The same is true of academia.
Look no further than the Chinese Students and Scholars Associations, of which
there are more than 150 branches across American campuses. These groups help
organize social events for some of the more than 430,000 Chinese nationals
studying in the United States; they also alert Chinese consulates and
embassies when Chinese students, and American schools, stray from the
Communist Party line.
At the University of Maryland, a Chinese student recently spoke at her
graduation ceremony of what she called the “fresh air of free speech”
in America. The Communist Party’s official newspaper swiftly chastised her,
she became the victim of a firestorm of criticism on China’s
tightly-controlled social media,and her family back home was harassed.
As for the university itself, its exchange program with China – one of the
nation’s most extensive – suddenly turned from a flood to a trickle.
China exerts academic pressure in other ways, too. Beijing provides generous
funding to universities, think tanks, and scholars, with the understanding
that they will avoid ideas that the Communist Party finds dangerous or
offensive. China experts in particular know that their visas will be delayed
or denied if their research contradicts Beijing’s talking points.
And even scholars and groups who avoid Chinese funding are targeted by that
country, as the Hudson Institute found out firsthand. After you offered to
host a speaker Beijing didn’t like, your website suffered a major
cyber-attack, originating from Shanghai. You know better than most that the
Chinese Communist Party is trying to undermine academic freedom and the
freedom of speech in America today.
These and other actions, taken as a whole, constitute an intensifying effort
to shift American public opinion and public policy away from the America
First leadership of President Donald Trump. But our message to China’s
rulers is this: This President will not back down – and the American people
will not be swayed. We will continue to stand strong for our security and
our economy, even as we hope for improved relations with Beijing.
Our administration will continue to act decisively to protect American
interests, American jobs, and American security.
As we rebuild our military, we will continue to assert American interests
across the Indo-Pacific.
As we respond to China’s trade practices, we will continue to demand an
economic relationship with China that is free and fair and reciprocal,
demanding that Beijing break down its trade barriers, fulfill its trade
obligations, and fully open its economy, just as we have opened ours.
We will continue to take action until Beijing ends the theft of American
intellectual property, and stops the predatory practice of forced technology
transfer…
And to advance our vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific, we’re building
new and stronger bonds with nations that share our values, across the region –
from India to Samoa. Our relationships will flow from a spirit of respect,
built on partnership, not domination.
We’re forging new trade deals, on a bilateral basis, just as last week,
President Trump signed an improved trade deal with South Korea, and we will
soon begin negotiating a historic bilateral free-trade deal with Japan.
And we’re streamlining international development and finance programs,
giving foreign nations a just and transparent alternative to China’s
debt-trap diplomacy. To that end, President Trump will sign the BUILD Act
into law in the days ahead.
And next month, it will be my privilege to represent the United States in
Singapore and Papua New Guinea, at ASEAN and APEC. There, we will unveil new
measures and programs to support a free and open Indo-Pacific – and on
behalf of the President, I will deliver the message that America’s
commitment to the Indo-Pacific has never been stronger.
To protect our interests here at home, we’ve strengthened CFIUS –
the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States – heightening our
scrutiny of Chinese investment in America, to protect our national security
from Beijing’s predatory actions.
And when it comes to Beijing’s malign influence and interference in American
politics and policy, we will continue to expose it, no matter the form it
takes. And we will work with leaders at every level of society to defend our
national interests and most cherished ideals. The American people will play
the decisive role – and in fact, they already are…
As we gather here, a new consensus is rising across America…
More business leaders are thinking beyond the next quarter, and thinking
twice before diving into the Chinese market if it means turning over their
intellectual property or abetting Beijing’s oppression.
But more must follow suit. For example, Google should immediately end
development of the “Dragonfly” app that will strengthen Communist Party
censorship and compromise the privacy of Chinese customers…
More journalists are reporting the truth without fear or favor, and digging
deep to find where China is interfering in our society, and why – and we
hope that more American, and global, news organizations will join in this
effort.
More scholars are speaking out forcefully and defending academic freedom,
and more universities and think tanks are mustering the courage to turn away
Beijing’s easy money, recognizing that every dollar comes with a
corresponding demand. We’re confident that more will join their ranks.
And across the nation, the American people are growing in vigilance, with a
newfound appreciation for our administration’s actions to re-set America’s
economic and strategic relationship with China, to finally put America First.
And under President Trump’s leadership, America will stay the course.
China should know that the American people and their elected representatives
in both parties are resolved.
As our National Security Strategy states: “Competition does not always mean
hostility.” As President Trump has made clear, we want a constructive
relationship with Beijing, where our prosperity and security grow together,
not apart. While Beijing has been moving further away from this vision,
China’s rulers can still change course, and return to the spirit of
“reform and opening” and greater freedom. The American people want nothing
more; the Chinese people deserve nothing less.
The great Chinese story-teller Lu Xun often lamented that his country
“has either looked down at foreigners as brutes, or up to them as saints,
but never as equals.” Today, America is reaching out our hand to China;
we hope that Beijing will soon reach back – with deeds, not words,
and with renewed respect for America. But we will not relent until our
relationship with China is grounded in fairness, reciprocity, and respect
for our sovereignty.
There is an ancient Chinese proverb that tells us that “men see only the
present, but heaven sees the future.” As we go forward, let us pursue a
future of peace and prosperity with resolve and faith…
Faith in President Trump’s leadership, and the relationship that he has
forged with China’s president…
Faith in the enduring friendship between the American people and the Chinese
people…
Faith that heaven sees the future – and by God’s grace, America and China
will meet that future together.
Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.
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