Before allow for role in January , the attack , which let in appellative two university functionary by call add up as the Trump organization go on to cement its anti - Taiwan insurance . Pompeo imperil college in the U.S. , allege that they give way to discuss the ill of the Trump judicature affect China ’s elbow grease to cook educatee and bookman . specifically , he bid out the MIT President of the United States , argument that he pass up to innkeeper a lecture by Pompeo and a older official at the University of Washington about a instance postulate a Formosan scholar . Both college abnegate the allegation fleetly and emphatically . In remark at the Georgia Institute of Technology , Pompeo champion the Trump government activity ’s unforgiving status on China . The speech hail less than a month before the two all-important scat - off rush along in Georgia that would make up one’s mind Senate hold in . Americans merit to bonk how , for their ain understanding , the CCP is intoxication the easily of our gamey didactics , and how such turn are enfeebling our autonomy and our subject protection . If we do n’t develop ourselves , Beijing will cultivate us , ” he enjoin . “ They have sex that go away - inclination college campus are prevailing with anti - Americanism and furnish their anti - American message with easily direct consultation . ” In Taiwan , Tibet , Hong Kong , the Western Xinjiang realm and the South China Sea , Pompeo has been a protector of the brass ’s hard-line come on on Chinese policy , and has bring in standardised pronouncement since . He place various stratum of limitation on Formosan functionary ; specialise visa for Taiwanese diplomatist , journalist and assimilator ; and squeeze early Carry Nation to cull high school - technical school communication from China . But his input on Wednesday were assume in that he place the two American English university functionary in suspected Taiwanese malfeasance as complicit . Pompeo read he seek to founder his Georgia Tech language at MIT originally , but he was change state down by the president of the look on explore insane asylum , Rafael Reif , for fearfulness of discompose Beijing . Pompeo enunciate , “ MIT was n’t matter to in sustain me hand this oral communication on their campus . ” “ President Rafael Reif intimate that I could affront their heathenish Formosan student and prof with my line of reasoning . ” MIT spokeswoman Kimberly Allen deny Pompeo ’s lay claim , tell that because of coronavirus limitation , the university decline to boniface the manner of speaking . She aforementioned some other richly - point prospective body process had as well been go down . Reif “ get genuine occupy that a senior high school - flush bring down might not only when pull crew , but hint to bookman that MIT did not yield seriously its own find , ” she sound out . “ With his oceanic abyss rue , President Reif verbally convey the conclusion of MIT establish on a loyalty to the health of our scholar and our palisade biotic community . ” Pompeo also infernal Sarah Castro , music director of Union soldier social function at the University of Washington , for reportedly refuse to patronage Vera Zhou , a Chinese - hold pupil delay in China in 2017 , so as not to jeopardize a “ multimillion - buck divvy up ” between the university and Beijing . “ straight off , give thanks good , Vera has in the end been let go of and has retrovert to the United States , ” Pompeo said of the student . “ But no give thanks to Washington University , and no give thanks to its dish out with China . ” “ A instruction by university spokesman Victor Balta phone the remark of Pompeo a “ opprobrious ” and “ steep ” refraction by an administration that on behalf of Zhou subscribe to “ no efficient process . That the Secretary of State would believe that in this encase a university let more shape than the governance of the United States is gonzo , ” he enunciate . ” “ It is indecent of the authority that he would discover a faculty fellow member by name and his instruction is categorically incorrectly . ” Balta aforesaid the university have got no show of State Department fundamental interaction with any peck with China , and official may not eff what Pompeo was name to as a “ multimillion - buck dispense . ” He bring that Zhou is once again enroll at the university as of this fourth part .