Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the United States will implement sanctions on certain employees of Chinese technology companies, including those working for Huawei, who engage in human rights violations perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Huawei in particular is effectively dominated by the CCP. Sec. Pompeo said that telecommunication companies that do business with Huawei are complicit in human rights abuses.
.@SecPompeo comments on the Chinese Communist Party’s implementation of national security legislation in Hong Kong, U.S. policy on the South China Sea, and Huawei and 5G. pic.twitter.com/jkj2rBRZYU
— Department of State (@StateDept) July 15, 2020
The secretary will travel to the UK and Denmark next week, after the UK severed ties with Huawei and banned the company from its 5G wireless network. The UK's decision followed the Chinese government's rollout of a national security law that severely impedes on Hong Kong's individual autonomy. The Trump administration pressed our British allies to sever ties on account of those human rights violations.
Today’s decision by the UK to ban Huawei from its 5G networks advances Transatlantic security in the #5G era while protecting citizens’ privacy, national security, and free-world values.
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) July 14, 2020
Tomorrow, Sec. Pompeo is set to release the State Department’s report from the Commission on Unalienable Rights. He told reporters that the administration crafts foreign policy based on America’s “founding principles” and is committed to “reverence for unalienable rights.”
.@SecPompeo discusses tomorrow's release of the Commission on Unalienable Rights report. pic.twitter.com/di5VnAxeL7
— Department of State (@StateDept) July 15, 2020
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