Tag: Mike Pompeo

• Friday, September 18th 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  The attraction of oil: first ever US Secretary of State visit to Suriname and Guyana

  

  Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first US secretary of state to visit Guyana and Suriname as the discovery of oil fuels a sudden new interest in the small South American nations.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Pompeo announces US ambassador to Beijing is stepping down

  

  The US ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, is stepping down, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday. Thanking Branstad for his service, Pompeo said in a tweet that he had “contributed to rebalancing US-China relations so that it is results-oriented, reciprocal, and fair”.

• Wednesday, July 29th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  White House bars two ex Maduro officials from entering US, alleging involvement in corruption

  

  The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two former officials of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government, barring them from traveling to the United States over accusations they were involved in significant corruption.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2020 - 09:47 UTC

  Pompeo confided to UK lawmakers that China had “bought” the head of WHO post

  

  US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told a group of British lawmakers that China had “bought” the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), according to reports in the British media and news agencies.

• Friday, July 17th 2020 - 07:08 UTC

  Trump planning to ban travel to US by all members of the Chinese Communist party

  

  The Trump administration is considering banning travel to the United States by all members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families, according to staff members of his inner circle, a move that would worsen already tense US-China relations.

• Saturday, June 20th 2020 - 10:10 UTC

  US blacklists Mexican companies involved in failed oil-for-food contract with Venezuela's Maduro

  

  The United States blacklisted Mexican company Libre Abordo and a related firm, accusing them of helping Caracas evade US sanctions in the first formal action taken by the US Treasury Department against Mexican companies involved in trading Venezuelan oil.

• Thursday, June 18th 2020 - 21:10 UTC

  “The Great John Bolton bombs” the White House and exposes Great Trump weaknesses

  

  In a withering behind-the-scenes portrayal, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton accused him of sweeping misdeeds that included explicitly seeking Chinese President Xi Jinping’s help to win re-election.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Trump orders tighter accounting practices of China based companies listed in US markets

  

  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned American investors against fraudulent accounting practices at China-based companies and said the Nasdaq’s recent decision to tighten listing rules for such players should be “a model” for all other exchanges around the world.

• Thursday, May 7th 2020 - 07:56 UTC

  US will use all options to free two Americans detained in Venezuela in an alleged failed mercenary attack

  

  The United States will use all options to free two Americans said to be detained in a failed mercenary attack in Venezuela, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday. “If the Maduro regime decides to hold them, we will use every tool that we have available to try to get them back,” Pompeo told reporters.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2020 - 06:55 UTC

  China official media calls “Evil Pompeo” a lying clown

  

  China's state broadcaster CCTV on Monday attacked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's “insane and evasive remarks” over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, further fuelling Sino-US tensions.