“The United States will not stand idly by while the people of Hong Kong are subjected to communist oppression,” the US Secretary of State insisted in a statement.
American lawyer among arrests
Mike Pompeo thus indicated that the United States would consider “sanctions and restrictions against each person or entity involved in this attack targeting the people h ongkongais ”. More than fifty pro-democracy opposition figures, including an American lawyer, were arrested in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the biggest crackdown to date under the recent national security law imposed by the China.
For Mike Pompeo, these arrests illustrate “the contempt of the Party Chinese Communist towards its own people and towards the rule of law ”. The Chinese authorities have engaged in 1997 a recovery in the muscular hand of the former British colony, the scene the previous year of a popular pro-democracy mobilization unprecedented since its handover to China in 310.