Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met in London today with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to discuss relations with China, Huawei, the Iran arms embargo and matters pertaining to “global security and stability.” Pompeo’s visit comes as part of a major campaign against Boris Johnson and his key associates, Dominic Cummngs and Michael Gove, by British intelligence and the anti-Johnson Tories who are furious about Johnson’s Rooseveltian “New Deal” announcement and his refusal to fully join in the Russiagate and Chinagate operations. While Pompeo ranted against China, Johnson told the press yesterday that he would “not completely abandon our policy of engagement” with China.
He further stated: “China is a giant factor of geopolitics, it’s going to be a giant factor in our lives and in the lives of our children and grandchildren…. You have got to have a calibrated response and we are going to be tough on some things but also going to continue to engage.” Yesterday when he was asked about human rights violations against Uighurs in Xinjiang and Pompeo’s favorite claim that Uighur women are being forcibly sterilized, Johnson responded that while such issues were “deeply worrying … I’m not going to be pushed into a position of becoming a knee-jerk Sinophobe on every issue,” AFP reported him as saying.
Pompeo’s visit occurred one day after Raab announced in the House of Commons that the U.K. was suspending “immediately and indefinitely” its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and imposing an embargo on export of anti-riot and other military equipment to Hong Kong to protest Beijing’s new national security law. The Chinese Embassy in London announced it will “resolutely respond” to London’s “blatant interference” in China’s internal affairs.
