2020年7月21日 东部夏令时间下午1:00 
迈克尔·R·蓬佩奥国务卿
英国伦敦
兰开斯特宫 
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蓬佩奥国务卿：当然，我们一开始讨论了中国共产党以及源自中国武汉的COVID-19病毒带来的挑战。我谨代表美国人民向英国人民因这场本可避免的大流行疫情而遭受的损失致以慰问和哀悼。中共利用这场灾难进一步追求它自己的利益是可耻的。习总书记不但没有帮助世界，反而让世界看到共产党的真面目。我们谈论了我们看到香港的自由如何被破环。我们看到中共欺负它的邻居，将南中国海的岛礁军事化，并挑起与印度的致命对峙。 
我要借此机会祝贺英国政府有原则地应对这些挑战。你们做了禁止华为参与未来5G网络的主权决定。你们和其他自由国家一道谴责中国违背中英条约的承诺。你们慷慨地向仅仅寻求一些自由而逃亡的香港人敞开大门。昨天你们暂停你们的引渡协议，将你们对中国的武器禁运扩大到香港本身。我们支持这些主权抉择；我们认为你们做得很好。我今天晚些时候将会见香港民主支持者罗冠聪和香港最后一任总督彭定康男爵。我肯定那也将会是令人大开眼界的重要讨论。 
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问：国务卿，你想让英国针对中国采取更有力的行动吗？你赞扬了英国政府目前为止所作的事，你认为英国应该更进一步吗？比如，或许对一些中国个人的有针对性的制裁，或许禁止TikTok？你对中国在核行业（听不清）的投资满意吗？
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蓬佩奥国务卿：你的问题是我们是否想让英国做更多的事来对抗中国。我不这么想，我们不这么想。我们认为整个世界需要一起努力，确保包括中国在内的每个国家在国际体系内以适当的、符合国际秩序的方式行事 。你不能去你没有合法索求权的海洋地区提出索求。你不能在喜马拉雅地区威胁各国，欺负各国。你不能搞遮遮掩掩并拉拢如世界卫生组织这样的国际组织。
对于理解并重视自由民主，知道这对他们的人民、对他们自己的主权国家很重要的国家，我们想看到他们成功，想要他们理解中国共产党对他们造成的这种威胁，自己努力并一起努力恢复正当地属于我们的东西。
我们——在贸易问题上， 看看特朗普总统。他所要求的只是与中国建立公平、对等的贸易关系。我们只是不想再让他们去窃取知识产权，剥夺美国公民辛辛苦苦创造的、发明的东西、获得的专利或商标，然后中国共产党指示其国有企业从美国人那里窃取这些产权。
我们想要每个国家都努力抵抗这样的行为。是这些行动。这不是说什么的问题，不是言辞的问题。而是我们希望所有国家共同努力抵制我今天向你们描述的中国共产党在每一个层面上的所作所为。当然包括英国，包括每一个国家。我们希望我们能够建立一个联盟，这个联盟了解这种威胁，会共同努力说服中国共产党，从事这种行为不符合他们的最佳利益。
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问：非常感谢。国务卿先生，蓬佩奥国务卿，美国针对华为采取行动的最终目的是什么？ 美国是想击垮这家公司，还是想让它进行某些改革，以便继续与它做生意？ 
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蓬佩奥国务卿：嗯，听着，首相的决定反映了他相信符合英国人民最佳利益的做法。我绝不怀疑这一点。我们已经就广泛的问题进行了多次谈话，并不是在所有问题上我们的意见都一致，也并不是就所有问题我们都得出相同的结论。我认为英国做出了一个很好的决定，但我认为，做这一决定不是因为美国说这是一个很好的决定，而是因为英国这里的领导人得出结论，认为为了英国人民做出这一决定是正确的事情。
至于华为，我们对华为并没有寻求一个目的。我们对美国人民有一个目的，就是确保数据集——属于美国人的私人数据——不会落入中国共产党的手中。所以，我们的努力并不是针对任何一个特定的公司或一个特定的行业，而是为了保护美国国家安全。我们将继续对从事不符合美国国家安全的贸易行为、或者使用电信基础设施的方式对美国构成威胁的每一个实体采取行动。无论是对我们的军事信息和高端国家安全信息还是普通公民的私人信息构成威胁，这些信息都不应该落入中国国家安全机器的手中。任何一个美国人都不应该在它们的手机上或它们的笔记本电脑上从事普通的活动或用它们的手机通话——任何一个美国人都不应该冒着他们的数据集会被中国共产党掌握的风险。我们下定决心确保这种情况不会发生。所以，你们看到的我们针对包括华为在内的多家公司采取的行动，反映了我们的这种安全使命。
问：华为有救吗？可挽回吗？
蓬佩奥国务卿：我们会保护美国国家安全。

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo And British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab At a Press Availability
07/21/2020 01:00 PM EDT
Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
London, United Kingdom
Lancaster House
FOREIGN SECRETARY RAAB:  Good afternoon, everyone.  Really delighted to welcome Secretary Pompeo back to London.  We’ve been discussing the full range of issues today.  We’re going through a whole range of challenges in the world, I think it’s fair to say, but there are also great opportunities, and Britain and the United States are absolutely keen and focused on making sure that we grasp them.
We’ve spoken today about our serious concerns about the situation in Hong Kong, particularly in relation to the national security legislation.  We talked a bit about our – the UK offer to BNOs, what we’re doing in suspending the extradition treaty, extending the arms embargo to Hong Kong.  Mike gave me his perspective on it as well.  We’re coordinating together with the Five Eyes, and we also discussed next steps including at G7 level.  We also talked about ongoing discussions in relation to 5G, and crucially how we can diversify our supply chains in relation to telecoms in the 5G network, and also more broadly learning some of the lessons from coronavirus around PPE and other things and the work that we can do together in order to facilitate that.
That, I think, brought us on to talk about the free trade negotiations.  We’re looking forward to meeting British and American businesses shortly, given we’re each other’s biggest investors.  Our annual trade relationship is worth over $300 billion.  We think we can do even better than that.  There are, every morning, just under one half million Americans who go to work for British companies, around the same Brits going to work for American companies.  And I think that illustrates the kind of win-win free trade deal that we’re committed and determined to achieve between our two countries – good for jobs, good for consumers as well.
The UK is really clear that we need to work with our American friends and also with other partners together in the international system to protect our freedoms and interests and stand up – as we’ve shown, I think, on Hong Kong – stand up for our values.  We’re more influential, we have more impact when we work together.  We also discussed Iran, Russia, the Middle East peace process, the broader challenges of COVID-19, and the need to strengthen, reinforce, and keep the team together in relation to NATO.
We discussed bilateral issues, and I think across the full range of international challenges we – of which there are many – we recognized that we’re always a lot stronger and more effective when we work together, and that’s what we’re going to continue to do in the weeks and months ahead.
Mike, over to you.
SECRETARY POMPEO:  Thank you, and good afternoon.  I want to thank Foreign Secretary Raab for the invitation to be here today.  I know it’s not easy to host events, especially at these times, so I want to thank you and your staff for putting this all together and making it work.  It was a very productive conversation.  We of course began with the challenge presented by the Chinese Communist Party and the COVID-19 virus that originated in Wuhan, China.  On behalf of the American people I want to extend my condolences to the British people from your losses from this preventable pandemic.  The CCP’s exploitation of this disaster to further its own interests has been disgraceful.  Rather than helping the world, General Secretary Xi has shown the world the party’s true face.  We talked about how we’ve seen Hong Kong’s freedoms crushed.  We’ve watched the CCP bully its neighbors, militarize features in the South China Sea, and instigate a deadly confrontation with India.
I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the British Government for its principled responses to these challenges.  You made a sovereign decision to ban Huawei from future 5G networks.  You’ve joined other free nations to condemn China’s broken promises on the Sino-British treaty.  You generously opened your doors to Hong Kongers who seek nothing more and fleeing just for some freedom.  And yesterday you suspended your extradition treaty and extended your arms embargo on China to Hong Kong itself.  We support those sovereign choices; we think well done.  I’ll meet later today with Hong Kong democracy advocate Nathan Law and Sir Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong.  I’m sure those will be eye-opening and important discussions too.
Dominic mentioned free trade discussions.  We’ve completed two rounds, more work to do; a third round scheduled for later this month.  It is a primary focus of the United States to see if we can make progress on this and bring this to a closure just as quickly as possible.  I spoke with the prime minister this morning about this and I hope that we can get it finalized before too long.  When we leave, Dominic and I will sit down with the British-American Business Council to hear about how we can get to the right place, which is reducing trade barriers, and hear more about how we can get opportunities for small businesses and create real wealth and opportunity, good jobs for working people here in the United Kingdom and for Americans too.
And finally, I discussed with both the prime minister and with the foreign secretary the importance of extending the UN arms embargo on the Islamic Republic of Iran.  We welcome the recent statement from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany recognizing that allowing the embargo to expire would have major implications for regional and security stability.  And I want to thank the British people too and the UK Government for its role in helping lead the international maritime security construct in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.  That’s important leadership from a true ally.
As Dom and I were talking about the Special Relationship, you can see it on days like today, where it translates into the ability to have candid, frank discussions on important matters which really cut to the heart of how we can work together to secure freedom for our peoples and each of our two countries, and both of our countries be forces for good together around the world.  So thanks for the chance to be with you here today.
FOREIGN SECRETARY RAAB:  Great.  Thanks, Mike.  So we’ll take a couple of questions.  Vicki Young from the BBC.
QUESTION:  First of all, Foreign Secretary, the Russia report today has two central accusations – one, that the present government’s ignored the threat that Russia poses to our democracy, more specifically that your government actively avoided looking for evidence of Russian interference in the Brexit referendum.  On both points, why have you turned a blind eye?
And to the Secretary of State, do you want Britain to take more robust action against China?  You have praised the UK Government for what it’s done so far.  Do you think it ought to go further, maybe targeted sanctions of Chinese individuals, for example, banning TikTok, maybe?  Are you happy with China’s investment in the nuclear industry (inaudible)?
FOREIGN SECRETARY RAAB:  Vicki, thanks very much.  First of all, you mentioned the suggestion that the UK actively avoided investigating Russia – I think in fairness you’ll find that wasn’t in the ISC report.  It was the comment of one MP, Stewart Hosie, and we categorically reject that.
I think if you look, we’ve got a long period recognizing the enduring and significant threat posed by Russia to the UK, including in relation to cyber, Russia’s top national security priority.  We call out Russia when it’s necessary.  We’ve shown that in relation to the cyber attacks on research and development facilities in the U.S., the UK, and Canada.  We’ve done that together with our partners, and we are not for a second complacent about the threat Russia poses when it comes to cyber.
Mike.
SECRETARY POMPEO:  Your question was about whether we would like the United Kingdom to do more to confront China.  I don’t think about it that way; we don’t think about it that way.  We think that the entire world needs to work together to ensure that every country, including China, behaves in the international system in ways that are appropriate and consistent with the international order.  You can’t go make claims for maritime regions that you have no lawful claim to.  You can’t threaten countries and bully them in the Himalayas.  You can’t engage in cover-ups and co-opt international institutions like the World Health Organization.
We want to see every nation who understands freedom and democracy and values that and knows that it’s important to their own people, their own sovereign country to be successful, to understand this threat that the Chinese Communist Party is posing to them and to work both themselves and collectively to restore what is rightfully ours.
We – look at President Trump on trade.  All he simply asked for was a fair and reciprocal trading relationship with China.  We just no longer wanted them to steal intellectual property, denying citizens of the United States who’d worked hard to create something, to invent something, to get a patent or a trademark, and then the Chinese Communist Party directed its state-owned enterprises to steal that property from Americans.
We want every nation to work against that kind of activity.  It’s those actions.  It’s not about language.  It’s not about words.  It’s about we want every nation to work together to push back against the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts in every dimension that I described to you today.  That certainly includes the United Kingdom.  It includes every country.  We hope we can build out a coalition that understands this threat, will work collectively to convince the Chinese Communist Party it’s not in their best interest to engage in this kind of behavior.
FOREIGN SECRETARY RAAB:  John Hudson from The Washington Post.
QUESTION:  Thank you very much.  Mr. Secretary, Secretary Pompeo, what is the ultimate goal of U.S. actions against Huawei?  Does the U.S. want to crush the company, or does it want it to make certain reforms in order to continue to do business with it?
And Secretary Raab, how do you respond to critics who say the UK is being strong-armed into its — into its China position by U.S. officials, including Secretary Pompeo, who met this morning with MPs who are China hawks?
SECRETARY POMPEO:  Would you like to go first?
FOREIGN SECRETARY RAAB:  I’m relaxed.
SECRETARY POMPEO:  I’ll take your question, too.  (Laughter.)
FOREIGN SECRETARY RAAB:  Look, we – when I go to Washington, I meet with folks on the Hill in all parties, all sides – quite right.  Look, we – the reality is as a result of U.S. sanctions, we’ve, of course, got to look with a clear-sighted perspective at what that means and we’ve taken a decision based on that, but I don’t think there’s any question of strong-arming.  Mike and I always have constructive discussions, and actually a vast majority of the times our views overlap and we work together very well, as we have with our Five Eyes partners on Hong Kong, and I think you can see that in the various measures we’ve taken.
SECRETARY POMPEO:  Yeah, look, the prime minister’s decision was reflective of what he believed was in the best interests of the people of the United Kingdom.  I have absolutely no doubt about that.  We’ve had a number of conversations about a broad range of issues, not all of which we agree on, not all of which we’ve come to the same conclusion about.  I think the United Kingdom made a good decision, but I think that decision was made not because the United States said it was a good decision but because leadership here in the United Kingdom concluded the right thing to do was to make that decision for the people of the United Kingdom.
As respect to Huawei, we don’t have an end state that we seek from Huawei.  We have an end state for the people of the United States, which is to make sure that the data sets – the private data that belongs to Americans – doesn’t end up in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.  So our efforts aren’t aimed at any one particular company or one particular business; they are aimed at protecting American national security.  And we will continue to take actions against every entity that engages in trade behaviors that are inconsistent with American national security or uses telecommunications infrastructure in ways that pose threats to the United States of America, whether that’s to our military information and our high-end national security information or the average citizen’s private information that ought not be in the hands of the Chinese national security apparatus.  No American should engage in ordinary activity on their cell phone or on their laptop computer or talking on their phone – no American should have the risk that that data set is going to be in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.  We’re determined to make sure that doesn’t happen.  So the actions you have seen us take against multiple companies, including Huawei, are reflective of that security mission that we have.
QUESTION:  Is Huawei savable?  Is it salvageable?
SECRETARY POMPEO:  We’re going to protect American national security.
FOREIGN SECRETARY RAAB:  Great, thanks very much, folks.
SECRETARY POMPEO:  Thanks, everyone.