Name: 蓬佩奧國務卿在布拉格捷克參議院發表講話。 (Secretary Pompeo remarks at the Czech Senate, in Prague)
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That's all you're going to suffer of my Czech today.

Minister Petricek, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Vondracek, Senator Fischer, who

I'll be speaking with after my remarks, members of the parliament, and other distinguished

This is an amazing honor to be with you all today.

Many years ago – too many to speak about – I was a young soldier in Europe stationed

Back then, it was nearly impossible to imagine that an American secretary of state would

ever deliver an address in this exquisite city that was, at that time, held captive

by communists, or that I'd be the one doing it.

This visit is personal for me in another way.

My home state of Kansas was a magnet for Czech settlers in the 19th century, from places

like Bohemia and Moravia and other parts of this fine country.

We have a Pilsen not too far from Wichita, where I live.

Their legacy is still alive today in their descendants and Czech festivals held in small

Those settlers came to Kansas – I know this history pretty well – they came for a better

There was also a familiar, very rich soil, and the coveted freedom that America always

And the Czech people know about freedom, too, and it is indeed a great and enduring bond

You all know this history well: In 1918, in Pittsburgh, Czechs and Slovaks living in and

inspired by the United States signed an agreement laying the foundations for the new democratic

And yesterday I had the chance to commemorate in Pilsen, 75 years ago, American troops coming

And that even during the darkest years of the Soviet occupation, the ties that endured

through the American people's hopes and prayers for your country and the broadcasts

of Radio Free Europe, they meant we were always there.

When the Iron Curtain finally fell, Americans rejoiced in your freedom.

And it's only fitting that Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty moved here in 1995.

This mission – it's the one that was just spoken about – is as important today as

I was serving in America's House of Representatives, the lower body, in 2014 when we put Vaclav

Havel's bust in the U.S. Capitol to mark two and a half decades of the Velvet Revolution.

Thirty years ago, President Havel became the first politician from the former Soviet bloc

to come to speak at the joint session of Congress.

I went to a handful of them during my time.

It's always remarkable, and only the most special leaders are given that opportunity.

He said that day, quote, “We are living in very extraordinary times.

The human face of the world is changing so rapidly that none of the familiar political

It was, truly, and it was an extraordinary time, an exciting time for this part of the

world, as the clouds of communism parted and the rays of freedom burst forth.

Central and Eastern Europe rejoined their free brothers and sisters in the West.

But we see today that in spite of this great time, we see that many of the geopolitical

assumptions that we held back then haven't come to pass.

The things we believed just turned out not to be so.

And perhaps – perhaps just now we're recognizing the trends that we should have recognized

We see that authoritarianism didn't die in 1989, or in 1991.

The storm was still there; it was simply over the horizon.

While we wrote the epitaph on those types of regimes, we now know that it was premature.

I happen to believe with all my heart – and America's friends in the Czech Republic

realize this now too – the Czech experience is a harbinger of what other nations on the

Russia – Russia continues to seek to undermine your democracy, your security through disinformation

It's even trying to rewrite your history.

Today an even greater threat is the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party and its

In your country alone, we see influence campaigns against your politicians and your security

forces; we see the theft of industrial data that you have created through your innovation

and creativity; we see the use of economic levels[1] to stifle freedom itself.

The CCP initiates retaliation against innocent parties when crossed.

It infamously canceled the PFK[2] Philharmonia's trip to Beijing for something as simple as

the mayor's efforts to deepen ties with Taiwan.

Shanghai cancelled its cooperation with Prague after this city signed a sister-city agreement

The CCP leverages economic power to coerce countries.

Recall that the Chinese embassy in Prague sent a letter to your former senate president,

Your free press did amazing work and reported on this strong-arming.

It said, quote, “Czech enterprises with economic interests in China will have to pay,”

This is deeply inconsistent with each of our values.

The CCP lies, and makes those who tell the truth disappear.

The virulent pandemic that came from Wuhan spread so widely, and caused so much damage,

Then there's the tragedy that has befallen Hong Kong and the premature denial of freedom

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