China’s Yang Jiechi Tells Mike Pompeo, ‘Stop Gross Interference in China’s Internal Affairs’

Dec. 8, 2019 (EIRNS)—China’s top foreign affairs official, Yang Jiechi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, “held a phone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday,” according to a Dec. 7 Xinhua wire. That formulation would seem to indicate that Yang initiated the call; the content of the conversation—a very strongly-worded protest over the recent U.S. passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act—confirm that this was a very high-level Chinese government initiative. It also underscores the evaluation of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, who recently returned from a trip to China, that Chinese officials are very upset about attacks on the country around Hong Kong, the Uyghurs, the trade talks, and so on, and believe that overall U.S.-China relations are currently bad, and will probably remain so for some time.

According to the Xinhua account of the call with Pompeo,

“Yang said U.S. officials have repeatedly made statements that distort and attack China’s political system and internal and external policies. Those are gross interference in China’s internal affairs and a serious violation of the international law, the basic norms of international relations and the will of the Chinese and U.S. people as well as the international community, Yang said. ‘China firmly opposes and strongly condemns these acts,’ he said,”

Xinhua reported.

Yang then lectured Pompeo on China’s “great achievements” over the last 70 years, which have gained it worldwide praise. He further explained that

“the Chinese people have a high degree of confidence in their own development path, theory, system and culture and will unswervingly follow their own development path, and no force can stop the Chinese people from marching forward, Yang said. China’s determination to defend national sovereignty, security and development interests is unwavering and no one should expect China to swallow anything that undermines its own interests, Yang said. Yang said that China urges the U.S. side to come to a clear assessment of the situation, correct its mistakes and immediately stop slandering China and interfering in China’s internal affairs.”