Excerpts of Remarks Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
美国国务院
发言人办公室
华盛顿特区（Washington, D.C.）
国务卿迈克尔·蓬佩奥（Michael R. Pompeo）讲话（摘要）
欧弗兰德帕克希尔顿酒店（Sheraton Overland Park Hotel）
堪萨斯州欧弗兰德帕克（Overland Park, Kansas）
2019年3月18日
我知道今天这里在座的有荷兰代表团，是由贸易大臣西格里德·卡格（Sigrid Kaag）率领。……
[美国]骄傲地与荷兰一道于6月4日和5日在海牙（The Hague）共同主持全球创业峰会（Global Entrepreneurship Summit）。
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首先，总统的外交政策。人们不常把创业与外交政策放在一起，但是我要说，作为小工商业者让我学到的一点是，如果你按照过去的方式行事，你会失败。你必须对旧有的做事方式作重新思考。特朗普总统（President Trump）无疑就是这样做的。
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北韩是一个好例子。我们上任时，导弹在飞，核试验在进行。过去二十年来采用的每一种方式都失败了。前几届政府尝试了许多方式。
我们决定另辟蹊径：我们协调了一项全球努力，一个全球经济制裁声势，让该政权要面对更大代价，但与此同时，伸出外交之手，谋求与北韩取得和平进展。
我们尚未完成。还有艰巨的工作。总统和我数周前在河内（Hanoi）旨在进一步发展新加坡峰会的成果，但是我们已经让朝鲜半岛（Korean Peninsula）出现有了前所未有的局面。
我们目前既在实施历史上最严厉的制裁，也在展开历史上最富希望的外交声势。我们希望这种双管齐下将会使东南亚地区和整个世界变得更加平安，更加安全。
我作为实业家学到的另一点是，打造强大合作关系的重要性。
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我每天在外交领域看到这点。
美国不可能独自进行在世界各地所需要的一切。我们必须把多方伙伴汇聚到一个使命，让各方都有能力带来结果。
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……从伊朗到北韩，从我们为加强北约（NATO）所作的努力，到我们为对应中国对世界的威胁而正在印度-太平洋（Indo-Pacific）建立的联盟，特朗普政府正在认真打造合作关系，就像你们所有人在商务生活中每天所做的一样。我们把能力赋予那些伙伴，让它们能够自己为其人民带来成果，并且有为整个世界带来成果的一系列共同目标。
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……我通过全球旅行和观察各种体制看到，[自由创业体制]是唯一一个能够让从宿舍动手的生意最终颠覆几十亿美元行业的体制，能够让敢冒风险的人——只要勤奋努力和设想精明，得以脱颖而出的体制。各行各业的人都会运用自己的才能，勤奋努力，取得成功。值得用它与我在其他地方看到的情况做一比较——那些没有这种模式的国家，用它与社会主义做一比较，社会主义让政府官僚控制经济，在每一个尝试它的地方都一败涂地。
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U.S. Department of State
Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, D.C.
Excerpts of Remarks Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Sheraton Overland Park Hotel
Overland Park, Kansas
March 18, 2019
I know we have a delegation here from the Netherlands in the audience with us. It’s led by Trade Minister Sigrid Kaag. ….
[The United States is] proud to cohost, along with the Netherlands, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit alongside you in The Hague on June 4th and 5th.
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First, the President’s foreign policy. You don’t put entrepreneurship and foreign policy in the same buckets all the time, but I must say one of the things I learned as a small businessman is if you do the things the way they were done before, you’ll fail. You have to rethink the old ways of doing things. And President Trump has certainly done that.
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A good example is North Korea. We came into the administration with missiles being fired and nuclear tests being conducted. Every approach taken over the past two decades had failed. Previous administrations had tried many approaches.
We decided we would do something different: We coordinated a global effort, a global economic sanctions campaign to raise the stakes for the regime to impose cost on them, but to do so at the same time by extending a diplomatic hand in pursuit of peaceful progress with North Korea.
We’re not done. Hard work remains. The President and I were in Hanoi now a couple weeks back to build on what had happened in the Singapore summit, but we’ve brought about a situation that has never occurred with respect to the Korean Peninsula.
We currently have both the toughest sanctions in history as well as the most promising diplomatic campaign in history too. We hope this combination will lead to a safer, more secure region in Southeast Asia and around the world.
Another lesson I learned as an entrepreneur was the importance of forging strong partnerships.
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I see this every day in diplomacy.
America cannot do what it needs to do around the world alone. We have to bring together multiple partners under a single mission, and empower each of those partners to deliver those results.
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…. From Iran to North Korea, from the work that we’ve done to strengthen NATO, the coalition we’re building out in the Indo-Pacific to counter the threat that China presents to the world, the Trump administration is working diligently to build the partnerships that you all do each and every day in your business life. We’re empowering those partners to deliver on their own for their people and to have a shared set of – a set of shared objectives that deliver for the entire world.
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… [A]s I travel the world and see all the others, [the free enterprise system] is the only system where a business started in a dorm room can disrupt a billion-dollar industry, and where risk-takers can rise from the crowd if they’ll work hard and have a good idea. People from all walks of life will use their talent and work hard and be successful. It’s worthy of comparing what I see elsewhere – countries that don’t have that model – comparing it to socialism, which puts government bureaucrats in control of the economy, and which failed spectacularly every single place it has been tried.
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