The move comes after Pompeo’s declaration that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) oppression of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region is 'genocide' and a crime against humanity.
‘It’s similar to what we’re seeing in Twitter and Facebook and Apple and on too many university campuses today. It’s not who we are. It’s not who we are as Americans.’
'Now more than ever, the Chinese people need the Vatican's moral witness and authority in support of China's religious believers,' Pompeo wrote earlier this month.
‘The Holy See has a unique capacity and duty to focus the world’s attention on human rights violations, especially those perpetrated by totalitarian regimes like Beijing’s’