On Fox, K.T. McFarland says China “unleashed a bioweapon onto the world”
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From the July 23, 2020, edition of Fox News' The Story with Martha MacCallum:
K.T. MCFARLAND: 49 years ago this month, Richard Nixon, President Nixon, directed his national security adviser to go to China and to open up relations with China, to bring China into the world. I was a young staff aide to Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger at the time. I remember it as if it was yesterday, and that set American foreign policy with China in a certain direction for 50 years, and President Nixon was right, he said "we induce them to change."
Our thoughts, Republican and Democrat alike was that as China modernizes, as China comes into the world, as they develop a middle class, they will have a -- be an open society, an open economy, an open society, but that's not how it turned out. The Chinese, in fact, have exploited that and that's why Pompeo was at the Nixon Library today because he's indicating we now have a reverse, we are now -- we are now acknowledging the fact that the Chinese have stolen intellectual property rights, have militarized the South China Sea, have unleashed a bioweapon onto the world, have practiced wolf diplomacy, and so we, the Trump administration, we the United States, we're going to have a very different approach to China going forward, and that's exactly what he was telling you.