by Patrick J. Byrne
Towards the end of July, the United States closed the Chinese consulate in Houston, saying it was a hub of spying and intellectual property theft. Shortly afterwards, U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, pictured above, delivered a defining speech calling on Western nations to unite in standing up to Beijing’s growing aggression and abuses of human rights.
What Pompeo may have lacked in the eloquence of a Winston Churchill delivering his 1946 “Iron Curtain” spe…