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POMPEO: "Shannon, when you won't be partners with your friends and your allies and you offend them, and you simply won't do anything to pushback against your adversaries like Xi Jinping, you see exactly this kind of hedging behavior. Shannon, we, for the first time, we upended 40 years of American policy and recognized that the Chinese Communist Party was the singular greatest external threat to the United States of America. And when we did that, our friends and partners around the world joined along with us, in the Quad, in Southeast Asia, our partners in Europe all came to see it the same way. This administration came in, they went soft on China. They called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, they said the leader was a pariah. And when you do those things, you will hurt the American people all across this country, and what you saw happen in the Kingdom this week is a direct result of bad American policy. You've got to stick with your friends, you've got to stay with your partners, and you must push back against your adversaries, or your friends will begin to hedge, right? They'll go make friendships to protect themselves if they can't count on America to be a good partner and friend around the world."