Pompeo Warns New Measures Planned for China Over Human Rights

07/30/2020

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William Mauldin and Courtney McBride | Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. is planning measures to address human-rights violations in China’s Xinjiang region, furthering the Trump administration’s recent confrontation with Beijing.

“I don’t want to get in front of the final decision, but you can rest assured there are further actions,” Mr. Pompeo told a Senate panel Thursday when asked about the U.S. response to China’s mass detentions of Uighurs and other mainly Muslim ethnic groups in the northwest Xinjiang region.

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