US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with survivors of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on Tuesday, a day after Trump pledged to use military force to quell nationwide protests against police killings of black people.
Pompeo met with four Tiananmen protest participants – Wang Dan, Su Xiaokang, Liane Lee and Henry Li – in a closed-door meeting at the State Department headquarters in Washington.
Pompeo said little during the 40-minute meeting other than ask, “What can we do to help China have democracy?” according to Wang, who was once No 1 on Beijing’s most-wanted student leaders list. “It was mainly us doing the talking.” The protests were sparked by the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after being pinned to the ground by a white police officer for nearly nine minutes, despite repeatedly calling out that he could not breathe.
“The hypocrisy of Secretary Pompeo meeting with those [Tiananmen] survivors within this particular 24 hours is obvious,” said Berschinski, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour during the Obama administration. “The US is proving the importance for China to restore order in 1989,” Hu said. “But back then, the destruction of China’s order was much worse than US’ now.”
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