Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was set to visit survivors of China's 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests as the death toll in demonstrations across the United States continued to rise.
"I highly suspect that Hong Kong rioters have infiltrated American states," tweeted Hu Xijin, editor of a newspaper published by the Chinese Communist Party.
"The Chinese Communist Party has long used American universities to conduct espionage on the United States," Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) said in a statement on his decision to seek new student visa restrictions.
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The Hong Kong Police Force said that the demonstrators were detained for "unauthorized assembly, unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct in a public place."
Secretary of State Pompeo says the decision to impose China's national security law "would be a death knell for the high degree of autonomy Beijing promised for Hong Kong under the Sino-British Joint Declaration."
China said the U.S. "seriously" violates the one-China policy after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Taiwan president's leadership "an inspiration to the region and the world."
China, Australia's largest trading partner, recently began imposing economic pressures on the country after Australia called for an independent inquiry into the origins of COVID-19.
"I'd rather have him on the phone with some world leader than have him wash dishes because maybe his wife isn't there or his kids aren't there, you know," Trump said Monday.
Ousted State Department Inspector General Steve Linick was reportedly investigating accusations staffers carried out personal tasks for Mike Pompeo, including walking his dog.
"Even the possibility that a non-genetically-engineered precursor could have adapted to humans while being studied in a laboratory should be considered," the authors of the study wrote.
"The disease is the enemy of all mankind, and the world must fight it together," he said in an April interview with the Hebrew-language newspaper Israel Hayom.
"The huge drama of blame-shifting in the U.S. has already been heavily spoiled, and continuing the drama is meaningless," Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said.
Pompeo and President Donald Trump say they are confident that COVID-19 came from a Wuhan research lab, but are yet to produce evidence supporting the assertion.
Chinese officials worked to conceal this effort by "denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data," the DHS report alleges.