Secretary of State Pompeo described the threat from China to the US economy and politics in a speech at the Nixon Library on July 23.

It is an honor to be at Yorba Linda, the birthplace and raised place of the late President Richard Nixon.

We were also honored to see the very special people present at the event, including Chris Nixon, whom I have known for a long time.

I also want to mention that many Chinese dissidents have come here after a long journey.

Finally, as the governor said, I was born in Santa Ana, not far from here.

My speech was fourth in the series of speeches about China that I suggested National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, Federal Bureau of Investigation (Chris) Chris Wray and Justice Attorney William

We have a clear purpose and mission.

Our goal is to clarify the threat President Trump's China policy is seeking to address, as well as our strategy to ensure freedom.

Advisor O'Brien talks about ideology.

The next year will mark the half-century of Dr. Kissinger's secret mission to China, while 2022 will mark the 50th visit of the late President Nixon.

The world was very different then.

We have expected that our commitment to China will bring a promising future of friendliness and cooperation.

But now we are all still wearing masks and seeing the number of people dying from pandemics increasing day by day because China has broken its promises to the world.

We witness staggering statistics about China's trade abuses, causing Americans to lose their jobs and inflict severe damage on economies across the United States, including southern California.

I will repeat the question in the minds of Americans from California to Kansas and elsewhere: What must Americans show after 50 years of association with China?

From the US Secretary of State's point of view, is the United States safer?

We have to admit a harsh truth.

President Trump has asserted that we need strategies to protect the US economy and lifestyle.

Before I was so excited about destroying the legacy of President Nixon, I wanted to make it clear that he did what was best for the American people at the time, most likely he did.

He is an excellent student of China, a cold but powerful warrior, who also admires the Chinese people, I think we all do.

Nixon explained the future strategy in a very famous article in Foreign Affairs magazine in 1967. He said that "in the long-term vision, we cannot leave China outside the family of nations.

I think the key sentence in the whole article is "promote change".

As time passed, US policy makers increasingly believed that China would be more open and free to become prosperous, less of a threat abroad and more friendly.

However, that period will end.

The truth is that our policies and the free nations have revived China's exhausted economy, so that Beijing can return to take revenge.

We welcome Chinese citizens, only to see their government take advantage of our free and open society.

We push our Taiwanese friends on the sidelines, but they still thrive.

We grant special economic incentives to China, only to see them asking Western companies to ignore human rights violations if they want to enter this market.

Advisor O'Brien mentioned some examples, such as Marriott, American Airlines, Delta and United must delete all information about Taiwan on the website to avoid making China angry.

This also happens around the world.

How has this enthusiasm worked?

China copies our economic secrets and intellectual property, leaving millions out of work across the United States.

President Nixon once said he feared that he created a "Frankenstein" when opening the world to China, and here we are.

People of good will argue about the freedom of countries to let that bad happen over the years.

Whatever the reason, China is increasingly authoritarian in the country and aggressive abroad.

I don't think many people will argue about the facts I mention today.

We will continue the dialogue, but the content will be different.

Mr. Yang's promise, like the Chinese regime, is empty.

As advisor O'Brien explained, General Secretary Xi Jinping was a man who strongly believed in the worn-out totalitarian ideology.

My experience as a member of the House Intelligence Committee, then Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and over two years as Secretary of State led to the following conclusion:

The only way to really change China is not to act on the words of its leaders, but to how it behaves.

We, the countries that love freedom, must push China to change as Nixon wishes.

We have to start by changing the view of people and partners about China, not to be considered a normal country like other countries.

We understand that trading with China is not the same as any other country that complies with the law.

But the pursuit of fair terms, as our trade representatives do when reaching a first-stage economic agreement, can force China to calculate the act of stealing intellectual property and political rights.

We understand that doing business with a Chinese company is different from a Canadian business.

A specific example is Huawei.

If American companies invest in China, they may unintentionally or intentionally support human rights abuses.

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce imposed sanctions and listed many Chinese officials and organizations on the blacklist for abusing human rights.

We also know that not all Chinese students and workers are ordinary people, coming here to earn a little money and gain knowledge.

The Ministry of Justice and various agencies are seeking ways to punish those criminals.

We know that the Chinese military is no ordinary army.

The US Department of Defense has stepped up efforts, as well as campaigns to maintain freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and the Taiwan Strait.

We have also developed a series of new policies to deal with China at the State Department, promoting President Trump's goal of fairness and reciprocity, and adjusting the deficit that has expanded over the past decades.

Right this week, we asked the Chinese Consulate General in Houston to close, because it is the center of espionage and theft of intellectual property rights.

Two weeks ago, we reversed eight years of ignoring international law in the South China Sea.

Every level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs around the world has interacted with its Chinese counterparts to demand fairness, reciprocity.

However, the American approach cannot only hinge on tough action, which is hard to produce the results we expect.

That begins with face to face foreign policy.

I met Uyghurs and ethnic Kazakhs leaving Xinjiang.

Last month, I heard the stories of people who were present at the Tiananmen Square event.

Imagine how much better the world and China would be if we were to hear the voices of doctors in Wuhan, just as they were warned of a pandemic outbreak due to nCoV.

For decades, our leaders have ignored or mitigated the brave voices of criticism in China, who have warned about the government we face.

We cannot ignore that anymore.

But changing the behavior of the Chinese Communist Party is not the task of the Chinese people alone.

I believe we can change China, I have faith because we used to do that.

I have faith.

The fact is there are still differences.

I reject the notion that we live in an unchanging era, that some of the pitfalls have been established and that China's dominance is the future.

It was about time.

Nonetheless, I urge all countries to start acting like the United States, simply pursuing reciprocity, transparency and accountability from China.

Those simple and powerful standards will yield great results.

We must draw common directions, not be swept by China's lucrative proposals.

This will be very difficult for some small countries.

We have an ally in the NATO bloc that does not stand up in the way it should have on Hong Kong, because it fears Beijing will restrict access to the market.

We cannot make mistakes in the past.

If we do not act now, China will undermine the freedom and rule of law we build.

General Secretary Xi Jinping will not become a permanent executive both inside and outside of China, unless we let that happen.

This is not a matter of restraint and control, but a series of new and complex challenges that we have never faced.

So the United States cannot face this challenge alone.

It may be time to form a group with similar countries, a new coalition of democracies.

If the free world doesn't change, doesn't change, China will definitely change us.

As I explained in Philadelphia last week, while standing in the Independence Hall, our country was founded on the basis that everyone has inviolable rights.

Richard Nixon was right to write that "the world cannot be safe unless China changes".

Today the danger is clear.

God bless you all.

Thank you all.

* Tricia Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower are the daughters of the late President Nixon, Chris Nixon is the daughter of Tricia.