U.S. journalists’ rights in Hong Kong must be upheld, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement Sunday, warning the Chinese communist regime against further suppression of the free press.
Pompeo revealed that he had been alerted by intelligence to such a threat from the Chinese regime and said any action that would weaken Hong Kong’s sovereignty would require the United States to reassess how sincere China is about the Sino-British Joint Declaration it signed in 1984 as part of an agreement to return Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997.
