WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday urged the NBA to stand up to China, wading into a row as Beijing pressures the basketball league after a team official expressed support for demonstrations in Hong Kong.
"The pages of George Orwell's 1984 are coming to life there. I wish the NBA would acknowledge that," he added. "American businesses and American companies should demand that those same rights are extended to them," he told WKRN-TV."This all started with a singular tweet. I think the Chinese Communist Party can withstand a singular tweet. I hope that they'll begin to get this right," he said.
That prompted the Chinese government to end sponsorships for the team and league and drop planned NBA telecasts in China, with huge NBA logos and banners stripped off buildings.
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