You have to understand Pompeo "logic", he knows darn well the Virus wasn't from China lab leak or anything like that nor is it in any way the fault of China, quite the opposite actually. His complaint is that by China growing too strong and refusing to kowtow, it forced America to make "certain decisions" cough cough... It's like the rapists blaming the victim for dressing up too nicely.
On Covid, American and other like-minded racist governments’ objections towards what China did was not that it was ineffective, but rather than it was too effective.
Remember that according to those people, by divine right, American and western *cough* white *cough* standards asupposed to be the pinnacle of human accomplishment. China doing better is just ‘against the natural order’ of the world.
Because China took such aggressive and effective early action, it rather tied their hands in terms of how much they can not give a fuck about how many people died. So by setting a higher standard, China forced the west into following suit, which still rankles so much that what measures China is taking on the pandemic is unofficially banned in the western MSM.
Anyone who has followed developments closely can only roll their eyes as ‘core’ western nations in Europe and American adopt ‘New Zealand’, ‘Australian’, or ‘Japanese’ approaches, and report on it as it they are some pioneering breakthrough methods, when China had been using such approaches for months already. Things like tracing apps, quarantine hotels, mass testing are just some examples of the top of my head. They might hide the truth from their own people, but western leaders and elites knows just how far ahead of the cure China is and it drives them nuts.
Back during the last pandemic, the American swine flu outbreak, almost no effort was made to try to contain the outbreak. It was all about useless hand whinging while waiting for a vaccine.
Quarantine is only for poor 3rd world countries you see, when outbreaks starts there, it’s their problem so they need to bear all the pain and lock themselves off from the world so the rest of the world can carry on as normal. If an outbreak starts in a western country, well that’s just tough cookies for the world as then that’s ‘our’ pandemic and nothing more could have been done about it, end of.
It’s a similar situation on the economic front. Western companies cannot compete on a fair and level playing field because western governments always jumps in to bail them out and/or change the rules to give them overwhelming advantages. Why bother to go through the pain of getting your own shit together and being better when you can just call on government daddy to beat up anyone else who does better and take their lunch money for you?
Chinese SOEs used to be the same. Difference is China learnt from its mistakes and corrected them, whereas the west is perfectly happy with all of its own faults and inefficiencies, and deeply resent anyone else daring to do better, especially a non-white nation who doesn’t even pay lip service to western supremacy. A core reason is plain only racism and nationalism, but more of it is to do with the fact that much of the flaws and inefficiencies in western societies are features rather than bugs. They are loopholes and back doors put in place to help the elites stay at the top of the pecking order in the west.