Pompeo Condemns Hong Kong Poll Delay, Urges City to Rethink

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo condemned Hong Kong’s decision to delay its Legislative Council elections by a year and urged the city’s government to reconsider.

“There is no valid reason for such a lengthy delay,” Pompeo said in a statement released on Sunday. “This regrettable action confirms that Beijing has no intention of upholding the commitments it made to the Hong Kong people and the United Kingdom under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, a UN-registered treaty, and the Basic Law.”

“The reason for the delay is that the Chinese Communist Party candidates would be crushed, and the freedom-loving people of Hong Kong would prevail, and the leadership in Beijing simply can’t permit that to happen,” Pompeo said Sunday in an interview of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

He added that the scheduling change shows the increased scope of threat from Beijing under the newly passed national security law.

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Unfortunately your boss has ceded the high ground.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. This is subliminal implementation of the idea in the public psyche that only VALID reasons

for delay are acceptable.

In other words, they're working on one.

[progressive nobody]

2. Such a effin' hypocrite! so ready to condemn Hong Kong but

When the question about Trump trying to delay the election he hmmed and hawed

[paleotn]

3. Hey, Mike. I don't think they care what you think.

[Traildogbob]

4. What he thinks

Is Barr and Justice department should decide for Hong Kong as well. While smirking.