SYMPATHETIC ALLY (From left) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan look on as they listen during a bilateral meeting with the US president and Turkey’s president on the sidelines of the NATO summit at the Ifema congress center in Madrid on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 (June 30 in Manila). Blinken on Thursday expressed Washington’s solidarity with the people of Hong Kong as they experience what he called an ‘erosion of autonomy’ under Chinese rule, and called for their personal freedoms to be restored. AFP PHOTO
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday (Friday in Manila) expressed Washington's solidarity with the people of Hong Kong as they experience what he called an "erosion of autonomy" under Chinese rule, and called for their personal freedoms to be restored.
