Pompeo Calls Hong Kong ‘Just Another Communist-Run City’ Now

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said China’s moves to exert more control over Hong Kong have “eviscerated” the rule of law in the city as the U.S. continues to strip trade privileges from the former British colony.

“A free Hong Kong was one of the world’s most stable, prosperous and dynamic cities,” Pompeo told reporters in Washington on Wednesday. “Now it will be just another communist-run city where its people will be subject to the party elite’s whims. It’s sad.”