"The Chinese Communist Party must be gleeful when they see the New York Times spout this ideology."

All of us who want the U.S. to do much more to compete w/China have to pay attention to this—how the "new Cold War" is deployed to attack media & the movement to reckon w/racism. https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1283912748078956545

This is grim stuff. But Pompeo is wrong on every level. Reckoning w/our long & enduring history of racism is essential to rebuilding our democratic system to be more just. That also has the benefit of showing the best side of democracy in a world w/an authoritarian great power.

China's rulers, meanwhile, are the ones who refuse to reckon w/the ugly parts of their history. They're the ones who talk about "slandering" & "disturbed reading" of history—what the CCP terms "historical nihilism" (历史虚无主义). Pompeo's language is eerily reminiscent of that.