The hegemonic ambitions of China’s leadership will see the disengagement with China started by former President Donald Trump continue globally and in the White House, Mike Pompeo said Saturday. “[T[here will be no doubt that there will be disengagement—decoupling, some have called it—that will almost certainly have to take place,” he said during an interview with The Epoch Times’s American Thought Leaders at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. Pompeo said that the longstanding strategic engagement approach toward the Chinese regime, which was established during the Richard Nixon era by his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, has failed. He believes that countries including the United States will move forward to abandon this engagement approach. “They’re going to do some of them differently,” he said. “For 40 plus years, Democrat or Republican, there was this idea of engaging with China and things will get better. We saw that the Chinese …