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But there are also visitors coming to Hong Kong from China's mainland. They are citizens of a country in which they have no political freedom, little uncensored information, and live under threat of imprisonment if they dissent.
They come from the country the Hong Kong protesters don't want to be their future; even as they know each day brings them closer to 2047, when Hong Kong is absorbed into the whole of China.
President Trump is vocal when he decries China's trade policies. "China was killing us with unfair trade deals," he said again this month.
But he has not raised his voice against China's human rights crimes, including the mass detention of Chinese Uighurs in re-education camps, or the widespread imprisonment of political dissidents.
To be sure, even those U.S. and world leaders who criticize China about human rights have been reluctant to risk losing any of the lucrative trade between the two countries. Their moral indignation has mostly stayed rhetorical.
But when President Trump was asked about the protests in Hong Kong this week, he once more praised Chinese President Xi Jinping as "a very great leader," and called for a "happy and enlightened ending to the Hong Kong problem," — which seems to say protesters are "the problem" — not China's increasingly steely rule of a place to which it had promised autonomy for 50 years.
I think a reason protesters have descended on Hong Kong's vast international airport is to appeal personally to people from all over the world. Their protest might inconvenience tourists. But it might also pierce their conscience, and make them consider if China's vast wealth can buy the silence of the world.
Does Trump support Communist China as opposed to Hong Kong, despite China's human rights crimes? Will money and personal gain always be the priority over standing for values and human rights across the world? Is it unrealistic to want the president to have some support for Hong Kong citizens in a situation like this, at least a verbal comment or understanding in their favor?
Opinion: Hong Kong Protesters Might Bother Tourists, Or Pierce Their Conscience : NPR
Does Trump support Communist China as opposed to Hong Kong, despite China's human rights crimes? Will money and personal gain always be the priority over standing for values and human rights across the world? Is it unrealistic to want the president to have some support for Hong Kong citizens in a situation like this, at least a verbal comment or understanding in their favor?
Opinion: Hong Kong Protesters Might Bother Tourists, Or Pierce Their Conscience : NPR
I'd rather the President remain on the side of the American people.
Leave the moral indignation that is mostly rhetorical to the bleeding hearts.
Your post suggests the American people support Beijing over Hong Kong people.
If so then you speak for yourself and the Putin-Trump Rowers only.
To include the Trump-Kim-Xi-Dictator-Tyrants Fanclub. Authoritarians all. American isolationism has always been a fail. It's never been more pernicious than it is presently btw.
Your post suggests the American people support Beijing over Hong Kong people.
If so then you speak for yourself and the Putin-Trump Rowers only.
To include the Trump-Kim-Xi-Dictator-Tyrants Fanclub. Authoritarians all. American isolationism has always been a fail. It's never been more pernicious than it is presently btw.
I really don't the remember the outcry from the American people when Iran executed 2,000 people during the years when Kerry was aimlessly trying to negotiate a Nuclear deal.
What did Obama say to all these executions?
The 2,000 are the known number, btw.
???
I made no mention of what "the American people" should do. I ONLY speak for myself. Furthermore, I said nothing about Putin, Kim, Xi or anyone...except Americans.
Save your spin, hyperbole and lies and stop making **** up about me.
I said what your post suggested.
No, you didn't. You made up **** that I didn't say.
Does Trump support Communist China as opposed to Hong Kong, despite China's human rights crimes? Will money and personal gain always be the priority over standing for values and human rights across the world? Is it unrealistic to want the president to have some support for Hong Kong citizens in a situation like this, at least a verbal comment or understanding in their favor?
Opinion: Hong Kong Protesters Might Bother Tourists, Or Pierce Their Conscience : NPR
Where's the silence? "Hong Kong braced for more mass protests over the weekend, even as China warned it could use its power to quell demonstrations and U.S. President Donald Trump urged his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to meet with the protesters to defuse weeks of tensions."
China warns it could quell Hong Kong protesters; Trump urges Xi to meet them - Reuters
**** you don't dare say.
You suggested the American people mustn't have any interest, concern or commitment to democracy in Hong Kong. This is your position and bent over posture.
I'd rather the President remain on the side of the American people.
Chinese leaders met with the leaders of Tiananmen Square in 1989. The tv footage showed student leaders point the finger at Party leaders and lecturing 'em in return for the Party leaders pointing the finger at the students and scolding them. Chinese are the world's worst negotiators.
So the Party ordered in the PLA to invade the square and kill 'em.
Trump is ignoring all of his advisers to include Bolton who insist on a strong statement by Potus to support democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong.
Trump's suggestion that Xi Jinpingpong meet with HKG leaders is 100% unrealistic and it is flat out stupid. Xi and the Party Boyz won't have anything to do with that. Nothing.
Your **** is dismissed.
Is that a little crack in your narrative about the Orange Man?
Nope.
It's my response to the opinions of Scott Simon from NPR and the OP.
Since you don't have any names for those advisers, I assume you were reading the NYT again ... :lol:
I'd rather the President remain on the side of the American people.
Leave the moral indignation that is mostly rhetorical to the bleeding hearts.
Bolton is plural now?!?
It's fascinating how the liberals try their hardest to involve Trump in a new war.
First it was Russia, then NK, then Iran and now China. Surely the next country will be some African nation ...
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