Topic: Mike Pompeo

China on Wednesday imposed sanctions against high-ranking Trump administration officials including former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, blaming them for the downturn in relations between Beijing and Washington.

In his final hours in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order protecting tens of thousands of Venezuelan refugees in the United States from deportation.

The Trump administration on Tuesday declared that China's repressive treatment of its Muslim minority Uyghur population amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity.

The United States imposed fresh sanctions against Chinese firms and military over its "reckless and belligerent actions" in the South China Sea as well as labeled nine companies including Xiaomi as military controlled.

The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions targeting two organizations it accuses of being controlled by Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and designated a former leader of a terrorist group.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday said without providing concrete evidence that the terrorist organization al-Qaida has established its new operational headquarters in Iran.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled Tuesday a trip to Belgium following the deadly U.S. Capitol riot.

The U.S. State Department announced Monday that it was redesignating Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, further reversing a 2015 Obama-era campaign to improve relations between the two countries.

China accused the United States of violating the "one-China principle."

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced his plans to designate Yemen's Houthi rebels as a foreign terrorist organization.