The comments came in response to the U.S.'s plans to deploy more fighter jets and aircraft carriers to the Korean Peninsula as it expands joint military drills with the South.
The agreement gives American forces access to four more bases in “strategic areas of the country,” a U.S. treaty ally facing territorial disputes with Beijing in the South China Sea.
Beijing’s bold moves in the Pacific have sent Washington scrambling to increase engagement, including by opening an embassy in the Solomon Islands for the first time since 1993.
Protesters yelled slogans denouncing Pell, whose sexual abuse conviction was overturned, while supporters said he was the victim of a campaign to punish him regardless of his guilt.
Police shot and killed Anthony Lowe near Los Angeles last week as he fled on what remained of his legs. His family wants to know why police believed they had to kill him.
At a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, members from both parties cited an NBC News report about a group linked to China's government stealing millions.