Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo held a face-to-face meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Hawaii, where two diplomats pledged to become more open as Washington and Beijing increased tensions over the coronavirus outbreak and China’s heavy approach to Hong Kong. the protesters.

For the first time since last August, Pompeo held high-level talks with Yang Jiechi at the Hickham Air Force Base in Hawaii on Wednesday.

Foreign Minister spokesman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement that the foreign minister “needs a full mutual agreement between the two countries”. “It also emphasized the need for full transparency and information sharing to combat the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and prevent future outbreaks.”

The Chinese foreign ministry pressured Yang to respect Pompeo’s Chinese attitudes towards key issues and stop interfering with his internal affairs.

He also said that the two diplomats discussed Taiwan and the poor situation of Muslim Uyghurs in the westernmost part of East Turkistan.

President Trump signed a law on Wednesday approving sanctions to punish Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses against the minority group.

Trump accused China of belittling the spread of COVID-19 to the World Health Organization in the early days of the pandemic and unable to accurately report the number of coronavirus cases.

In an interview with Fox Business Network in May, President Trump said the landmark trade agreement between Washington and Beijing “did not feel the same” as the pandemic raised the global economy.

“The main thing is that they shouldn’t let that happen,” said Trump Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo. “The ink was barely dry and the plague came out and it doesn’t feel the same for me.”

The president also threatened to end the US special relationship with Hong Kong, due to China’s move to establish solid national security forces over Hong Kong.

With mast cables