US Stands With Australia After Threats of Economic Retaliation From Beijing

'We greatly underestimated the degree to which Beijing is ideologically hostile to free nations,' says Pompeo

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denounced the Chinese regime’s hostility towards Australia and said the world now has a “more realistic understanding” on the “nature of the regime” after Beijing’s lack of transparency surrounding the CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus virus.

Speaking at a State Department press briefing on May 20, Pompeo said: “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chose to threaten Australia with economic retribution for the simple act of asking for an independent inquiry into the origins of the virus.”