"The worst secretary of state in history." The New York Times columnist thomas l. friedman recently commented on the current US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency who openly preached "lying, cheating and stealing" took office as Secretary of State for more than two years, which not only made the State Council's morale fall to the bottom, but also plunged US foreign policy into a quagmire and tarnished the international reputation of the United States.
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After Trump was elected president, he was appointed as the director of the CIA. 2065438+In March 2008, Trump nominated Pompeo to replace Tilson as Secretary of State. After he became Secretary of State, American policies on the Iranian nuclear issue, the Palestinian-Israeli issue and the DPRK nuclear issue were criticized. The "smear diplomacy", "pressure diplomacy" and "sanction diplomacy" he vigorously promoted made the United States controversial internationally.
Less than two weeks after Pompeo took office, the United States formally withdrew from the Iranian nuclear agreement, and then resumed comprehensive sanctions against Iran. For more than two years, the American policy of "extreme pressure" on Iran has been criticized by the international community and failed to force Iran to yield. On the Palestinian-Israeli issue, despite the opposition of the international community, the United States not only moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
It also publicly "gives a green light" for Israel to expand Jewish settlements. The "New Middle East Peace Plan" announced by the United States at the beginning of this year was explicitly rejected by the Palestinian side, and tensions in the Palestinian-Israeli region continued to escalate. On the DPRK nuclear issue, the United States is also very embarrassed. Over the past two years, although the leaders of the United States and North Korea have met many times, the differences between the two sides on the denuclearization of the peninsula are still difficult to eliminate.
We have never reached a consensus on the definition and realization path of denuclearization. From 2065438 to August 2009, Cui Shanji, the first deputy foreign minister of the DPRK, criticized Pompeo's remarks about the DPRK "crossing the red line, which not only made it difficult to hold the scheduled resumption of the DPRK-US work consultation, but also further worsened the DPRK-US relations". Since the outbreak of New Crown Pneumonia, Pompeo lied that China had concealed the COVID-19 epidemic.
Threatening the United States to withdraw its troops from WHO and shirking the responsibility of the United States for its ineffective fight against the epidemic. Washington post's website commented that in this extraordinary period, Pompeo has no intention of urging the international community to join hands in fighting the epidemic, and his aid commitment to its allies is just an "empty promise". He is more concerned about how to take the opportunity to suppress his opponent.
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