Pompeo Tweets About Upholding Human Rights After Chinese State Media Publish Personal Attacks

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a naturalization ceremony hosted by the USCIS at the State Department in Washington, DC on Oct. 22, 2020. MANUEL BALCE CENETA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promoted accountability for human rights violators on Twitter on Nov. 16, after Chinese state-run media personally attacked him in several disparaging editorials.

Chinese officials and state-run media have previously criticized Pompeo after the latter issued strongly-worded condemnations of the regime’s human rights violations and aggressive coercion tactics.