Thus spake a US marine when torching a village in Vietnam. And thus speaks Trump, to Hong Kong, signing the ‘Hong Kong Autonomy Act’, which does the opposite: reduces our autonomy.
It’s worth recalling that last year in the lead up to the mishandled introduction of the Extradition Bill, Beijing had no views on it. Hong Kong delegates to the National People’s Congress in March 2019 were given no “instructions” or “guidance” on the the I’ll-fated draft Bill that was promoted by our own C-E Carrie Lam. It was not until a delegation of pan democrats, led by former chief secretary Anson Chan, went to the US to urge Washington to oppose the Bill, that Beijing sat up and took notice. Even then it was simply to make a statement of support for the Bill, while urging Lam to note people’s fears.
IOW, Beijing had neither initiated, nor influenced, the proposed Extradition Bill. And only took an interest after international involvement.
You can imagine any government, certainly the US’, concerned at outsiders’ interference.
This seems to be the first instinct of the pan Dems when they see something they don’t like: to go pleading to the US. It fails every time. They keep doing it. They keep failing. It failed in these last twelve months of protests and riots. They threaten to keep doing it. Well done pan Dems.
It’s worth recalling that last year in the lead up to the mishandled introduction of the Extradition Bill, Beijing had no views on it. Hong Kong delegates to the National People’s Congress in March 2019 were given no “instructions” or “guidance” on the the I’ll-fated draft Bill that was promoted by our own C-E Carrie Lam. It was not until a delegation of pan democrats, led by former chief secretary Anson Chan, went to the US to urge Washington to oppose the Bill, that Beijing sat up and took notice. Even then it was simply to make a statement of support for the Bill, while urging Lam to note people’s fears.
IOW, Beijing had neither initiated, nor influenced, the proposed Extradition Bill. And only took an interest after international involvement.
You can imagine any government, certainly the US’, concerned at outsiders’ interference.
This seems to be the first instinct of the pan Dems when they see something they don’t like: to go pleading to the US. It fails every time. They keep doing it. They keep failing. It failed in these last twelve months of protests and riots. They threaten to keep doing it. Well done pan Dems.
