On July 23, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made his “Iron Curtain Speech”‘, delivered a fierce attack on China, labeling China as an “abnormal country” and claiming its root cause lies with the top echelon of the Communist Party of China, in former US President Richard Nixon’s hometown in California.
Richard Nixon, who visited China in 1972, is the one who opened the gate of normal diplomatic relations between China and the United States. Pompeo’s choice of such a significant place to give this speech, his intention is worth pondering.
