Foreign Policy Update – USA Gov Policy

CHINA

Yang Jiechi, a member of China’s Politburo, met with Secretary of State Michael Pompeo this week for six hours. In a read out for the press Pompeo said that the US is engaging China over its aggressiveness in a way that hasn’t occurred for the past 20 years. He said that the Trump Administration will not respond to Chinese coercion by retreating or having a nonreciprocal relationship. Assistant Secretary of State David Stilwell said that the Chinese were not forthcoming in the meeting despite US attempts to hold productive talks.

Pompeo said “It’s no longer enough to listen to what the Chinese Communist Party is saying. We can see their actions. I ticked through a few of them: Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, what they’re doing in India, what they’ve done in the economic zones along the Philippines and Malaysia and Indonesia and Vietnam, the coercion on Australia – when they had the audacity to demand that there would be an investigation of how this virus got from Wuhan to Milan, how this virus got from Wuhan to Tehran, how this virus got from Wuhan to Oklahoma City, and to Belgium and to Spain, and decimating the global economy.”

China did, he said, what authoritarian regimes do: “they disappeared doctors, they squirreled information away, and they denied the world the access it needed to respond to this virus in a way that could have reduced a lot of risk and a lot of costs.” Pompeo added that the US plans to closely watch the upcoming elections in Hong Kong. Pompeo said there is concern that the elections might be cancelled or postponed if Beijing thinks it won’t get its way. According to Stilwell, the Chinese have said one thing and done another which is the root of the lack of trust between the two countries. The trade deal, he pointed out, will be a good acid test of their commitment and trustworthiness.

GERMANY

In 2017, according to Pompeo, the Administration decided to evaluate the country’s entire structure of how the US engages the world, including how US troops are deployed globally.

He said troop deployment to places like Germany has two dimensions. “One, their location, and second, a dimension of should these be permanent bases or are we better off in a more modern world to have rotational deployments where we can get the right equipment at the right time.” Deployments now revolve around “big air forces, big cyber capabilities, big capabilities that are in different pockets,” he pointed out. The US in 2020 is concentrating on how it can collectively best respond not only in Europe, but also in the Middle East to meet today’s challenges.

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IRAN

The IAEA Board of Governors passed a resolution this week addressing Iran’s failure for the past year to answer the Agency’s questions about multiple locations in Iran related to its past nuclear program and now it is denying access to IAEA inspectors to potentially sensitive nuclear sites. The State Department’s Special Representative to Iran, Brian Hook, pointed out that Iran is taking destabilizing and irresponsible actions on the nuclear front. He added: “The news today out of Vienna at the IAEA is significant and it raises serious concerns about Iran’s nuclear program and its lack of transparency.” Hook praised the IAEA, and thanked Washington’s European partners, for holding Iran accountable and hopes the country has nothing to hide, although appears unlikely.

SYRIA

The Treasury Department and State Department are releasing 39 designations under the Caesar Act and Executive Order 13894 as the beginning of what will be a sustained campaign of economic and political pressure to deny the Assad regime revenue and support it uses to wage war and commit mass atrocities against the Syrian people, according to a statement released by Secretary of State Pompeo this week. It designates the architect of the Syrian people’s suffering as Bashar Al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Assad.

“For more than nine years, the Assad regime has waged a bloody war against the Syrian people and committed innumerable atrocities, some of which rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including killings, torture, enforced disappearances, and the use of chemical weapons,” Pompeo noted. By most estimates, since the conflict began, more than half a million Syrians have died and eleven million people have been displaced.

DARIA NOVAK served in the United States State Department during the Reagan Administration, and currently is on the Board of the American Analysis of News and Media Inc., which publishes usagovpolicy.com and the New York Analysis of Policy and Government. Each Saturday, she presents key updates on U.S. foreign policy from the State Department.

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Quick Analysis

2024 Vote Faces Integrity Issues

There is mounting evidence that the 2024 vote face serious integrity issues, centered around illegal aliens voting. Examine these media think tank, Attorneys general and other reports: A late September Daily Mail report notes that “Democrats admit thousands of registered Arizona voters haven’t provided proof of citizenship after shock computer ‘glitch.’ Arizona’s Democratic leaders, on a secret call, worried about a shocking discovery that, if made public, would see them accused of rigging the upcoming election and question the results of the last two.” A Heritage Foundation election oversight report found that the Biden-Harris Administration’s voter registration drive has been conducted in a partisan manner. The Research organization Just Facts notes that “Based on the latest available data and an enhanced version of a stress-tested methodology from a scholarly journal, a new study by Just Facts has found that about 10% to 27% of non-citizen adults in the U.S. are now illegally registered to vote. The U.S. Census recorded more than 19 million adult non-citizens living in the U.S. during 2022. Given their voter registration rates, this means that about two million to five million of them are illegally registered to vote. These figures are potentially high enough to overturn the will of the American people in major elections, including congressional seats and the presidency.” A Federalist study stressed that “More than a dozen jurisdictions run by Democrats — including Washington, D.C., and several adjacent Maryland municipalities — allow noncitizens to vote in some local elections. San Francisco not only permits noncitizens to vote but appointed one to serve on its elections commission. Such developments, against a backdrop of millions of illegal migrants streaming into the United States under the Biden-Harris administration, bring new urgency to debates over election integrity. Many Republicans fear that a widespread effort is afoot to give noncitizens the full benefits of citizenship, including the right to vote in all elections, on top of benefits already available to illegal aliens in some places, notably driver’s licenses, food stamps, government health care, and work visas.” In August, as reported earlier in this column, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in a coalition of twenty-three other attorneys general filed+ an amicus brief in support of an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship in order to vote, asking the Supreme Court of the United States for an emergency stay of a federal district court’s injunction against the law. “The Biden-Harris Administration has intentionally flooded our country with illegal aliens. Without proper safeguards, foreign nationals can and will illegally influence elections at the local, state, and national level,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The States have a constitutional right and responsibility to ensure that only legal votes from American citizens are counted. I hope the Supreme Court recognizes the urgency of this situation and moves to protect our national elections. Lawmakers in Texas must also make every effort to secure our elections and prevent noncitizens from voting. I urge them in the next legislative session to prioritize election integrity in Texas after millions of illegal aliens entered the state under the Biden-Harris Administration. As we also reported earlier, Democratic party leaders haven’t been shy about their advocacy to rapidly allow illegal aliens to vote. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, appearing on Bill Maher’s program, advocated quickly turning these unlawful arrivals into citizens. California’s Democratic Party is so intent on allowing illegals to vote that its super-majority in the state legislature voted for a bill that would prohibit local governments from seeking to apply common-sense voter ID. emocratic judges have even ignored voter demands for ballot security measures that would inhibit questionable voting practices. As noted by the New York Post “So much for no means no. That’s the message from the state Court of Appeals, which ruled last week that New Yorkers don’t need an excuse to cast an absentee ballot by mail when they’re otherwise able to vote in person — even though the voters themselves have directly rejected such a measure.” Illustration: Pixabay