Pompeo mocks Xi Jinping's 'fragile dictatorship' after Hong Kong protesters' sentencing
by Joel Gehrke, Foreign Affairs Reporter | | January 01, 2021 11:46 AM
Several pro-democracy activists who fled Hong Kong after Chinese Communist authorities tightened control over the nominally autonomous region were sentenced to prison, drawing derisive condemnation from the United States.
“A regime that prevents its own people from leaving can lay no claim to greatness or global leadership,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday. “It is simply a fragile dictatorship afraid of its own people.”
...
READ MORE: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pompeo-mocks-xi-china-fragile-dictatorship