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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2020.Hong Kong officials say Trump 'completely wrong' to end city's special status
By Jessie Pang and Greg Torode HONG KONG©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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sunfunbun
So Hong Kong protests China for months only to find the USA bailing on them because Trump is angry at China, and anything and everything associated with China is bad. One knows that since Hong Kong is showing protest against China, Trump should support them, but his mind says, no, anything to do with China is bad, so I will make China angry by sanctioning Hong Kong. Sure, Donald, that makes no sense, only in your whacko mind. Which, by the way, is really teetering on the edge as his panic and fear are fully on display.
Trump is ruining relationships all over the world and his inability to process information properly is finally being seen as lies by his own supporters...not all of them, only the one's who have woken up, cleared their noses, and smell the bs showing his crazy.
sunfunbun
Trump's action has less to do with Hong Kong, than his bitterness toward China. As usual, he has his priorities mixed up.
theFu
Bad news. There were over 500 other US legislators who voted for this law too.
One guy votes against all sorts of things "on principle" that have NOTHING to do with the bill. He's from Kentucky.
Hong Kong is sun-setting and has been since China took over. Less and less trade goes through Hong Kong over the last 20 yrs and now their world financial center status will be gone soon.
Like book sellers and authors who have been disappeared.
China wants Hong Kong to be treated the same as the rest of China. They will get that wish.
These aren't "sanctions", they will just reduce special, favorable, treatment for Hong Kong. That's good for Beijing and Shanghai, which are Chinese money centers.
For 40+ yrs, the world has tried to engage with China to raise up standards for the Chinese people, with fairly great success. The CCP wants power to be centralized and will do everything they can, including killing their own people to prevent the power being shared.
Zaphod
Sunfunbun
Trump is simply acting on the Hong Kong freedom and democracy act passed last October which prescribes exactly this action for this situation. Are you saying you are unaware of that?
(It is pretty safe to assume though that if Trump were to to ignore the law, you would bash him for that. Orange man bad, no matter what...)
arrestpaul
Elected officials in Hong Kong are siding with the communist Chinese government, at the expense of the Hong Kong residents. Why do you want the U.S. government, and U.S. taxpayers, to support the actions of the communist Chinese, and their puppets in the Hong Kong government?