聲明如下：
中共對香港的鎮壓促使美國重新調整同香港關係。中共通過限制對美國公民簽證進行威脅報復，再次暴露了北京如何拒絕爲自己的選擇承擔責任。 如果中國想重新獲得香港人民和國際社會的信任，就應該兌現在聯合國註冊的《1984年中英聯合聲明》中對香港人和英國的承諾。
附國務院聲明原文：
The Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on Hong Kong prompted the United States to retool its relationship with the territory. The Chinese Communist Party’s threats to retaliate by restricting visas for U.S. citizens exposes once again how Beijing refuses to take responsibility for its own choices. If China wants to regain the trust of Hong Kongers and the international community, it should honor the promises it made to the Hong Kong people and to the United Kingdom in the U.N.-registered 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration.
