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© Thomson Reuters 2020.China set to impose new Hong Kong security law
By James Pomfret, Yew Lun Tian and Steve Holland HONG KONG/BEIJING/WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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The Avenger
Taiwan will be next. Trump throwing the TPP in the garbage was one of his first mistakes. XI has made a fool of our president and USA looks weak right now.
PTownsend
Good to see virus-deniers recognize this.
kurisupisu
Better to live under oppression and a totalitarian regime than risk public health,I say!
quercetum
The end of the one party two systems. Xi hasn’t made a fool of Trump. Trump needs no help to do so.
theFu
Anyone else tired of all the posturing by Xi and Trump? The US doesn't deal with other dictators, why does China's CCP get a pass?
The US just needs to cut off all trade with China and only allow specially approved trade 1 yr at a time.
Wallace Fred
Now do saudi arabia and pretty much MENA.
Eppee
Everything is going as planned, they fueled the protests for months, escalating as much as possible with an aggressive police and ignorance of local demands. They now can act as "out of patience" and need to take over to bring peace back ... This is how the early end of one country two systems comes.
Toasted Heretic
Here comes the crackdown.
starpunk
I saw Tiananmen Square live in June 1989 on TV. The CCP is making up excuses for one here and since Diaper Don kowtows to dictators he will do nothing. He's just blubbering out his butt - again.
WilliB
Hong Kong is lost, but we should support them as much as possible. To his credit, Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, so there will be some cost to the CCP at least.
zones2surf
What I find most interesting about this article was the party that was not discussed at all. Namely, the UK.
While the U.S.' stance with regards to the PRC's handling of HK is newsworthy, the U.S. is NOT a party to the joint agreement regarding HK.
What the PRC appears set to do is, for all intents and purposes, fundamentally alter the "one country, two systems" model for HK set forth in the agreement. And do so well in advance of the 50 year period outlined in the agreement.
And, yet, the UK has been invisible. They have not mounted a robust opposition to the planned moves by the PRC.
THAT is the story here. Why? Why has the UK abdicated its role as a party to the agreement??
Perhaps for the same reasons that Boris & Co. approved Huawei for portions of the UK's 5G network.
Money!! The PRC has spent its money in the UK well! Too many politicians feeding at the trough of the PRC's largesse!
WilliB
TheAvenger:
In what universe was that a "mistake", and how would the TPP have helped Hong Kong?
Monty
I hope that the HK protests will be the biggest protests the world have ever seen!
China is a pain in the...!
starpunk
Even if the CCP succeeds in the crackdown, we can hope it's a Pyrrhic victory. Recall the Chinese Taiping Rebellion civil war of the 1860s that weakened the victorious Qing dynasty big time, leading to its 1911 overthrow.