China Still Poring Over Little-Noticed Pence Speech Weeks Later
- Harsh campaign-season attack reverberates in wary Beijing
- ‘We are at a very serious tipping point,’ researcher says
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In Washington, Vice President Mike Pence’s Oct. 4 speech ripping China was largely lost amid the uproar over the midterms and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
In Beijing, however, Pence’s address is still reverberating. Some in China’s foreign policy community continue to study it, comparing the rhetoric with Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946, and trying to determine whether it, too, marks the start of a Cold War between two world powers.