LONDON, July 21 — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today following London's diplomatically fraught severing of ties with China's Huawei and retaliation for Beijing's treatment of Hong Kong. The top US diplomat's last visit to London in January came...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives to speak at a news conference at the State Department in Washington July 15, 2020. — Pool pic via Reuters
It was a frosty affair that saw Pompeo accuse Britain of endangering Western intelligence-sharing by putting China at the heart of its next-generation data system. Johnson's most dramatic policy reversal saw him order UK mobile providers to stop buying 5G equipment from Huawei starting next year and remove existing gear by 2027.
Britain followed that up yesterday by suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and extending an arms embargo of “potentially lethal weapons” that had previously applied only to mainland China.Pompeo's visit will include talks with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and a sideline meeting with exiled Hong Kong protest leader Nathan Law.
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