UK, Australia & Canada voice deep concern at China’s proposed security law for Hong Kong

By artappraiser on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 8:23pm |

BREAKING: UK, Australia & Canada voice deep concern at China’s proposed security law for Hong Kong. They warn “such a law on Hong Kong’s behalf without the direct participation of its people, legislature or judiciary would clearly undermine the principle of 1 country 2 systems” pic.twitter.com/xFcx2DgZv0
— Deborah Haynes (@haynesdeborah) May 22, 2020

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https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1263858181408722944

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This is the correct thing to do... if we actually cared about HK people, rather than just pretending to care. https://t.co/IdZomiiTY9
— Yun Jiang (@yun_aus) May 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 8:25pm

Hong Kong as we know it, is no more.

China is introducing a national security and anti-sedition law on Hong Kong’s behalf, bypassing the city’s legislature.

How many signs does the world need to take the threat that China poses to liberty seriously? https://t.co/j6ACk5ZNRw
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) May 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 8:27pm

“This is a frightened lot of bullies...we must really learn to stand up to them.”

Former British Governor of Hong Kong, Lord Patten, says China is taking advantage of the pandemic to introduce stricter security laws in Hong Kong. pic.twitter.com/6p9uOvLOyD
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) May 22, 2020

The White House now vocal about its #StandWithHongKong position.

Remarkable development in US-China affairs.

Huge victory for pro-Democracy/Anti-communist protesters in Hong Kong.@AdonisAlbright @OANN pic.twitter.com/szp9zFpV57
— Chanel Rion OAN (@ChanelRion) May 22, 2020

Top U.S. officials warned that China’s push to introduce new national security laws in Hong Kong could jeopardize the city’s special trade status https://t.co/kyJLpcG7C9
— Bloomberg (@business) May 22, 2020

U.S. condemns China's 'disastrous proposal' on Hong Kong: Pompeo https://t.co/nVrTE1v4yh pic.twitter.com/qfBwzGc6P5
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 8:35pm

But Pompeo boffs Belt & Road statement in Australia.

Total incompetent.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/25/we-will-simply-disconnec...

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/25/2020 - 11:52am

Amazingly incompetent! This is MAGA?

The US embassy in Australia was forced to clean up the damage within hours

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/25/2020 - 1:56pm

Well, to be fair for Trump they're forced to clean up within minutes, sometimes before the press conf is over. So Pompeo isn't amazingly incompetent in context of this administration, but any other point in history he would be.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/25/2020 - 2:01pm

yes but the cabinet used to be the cleanup people (i.e., the ones that leaked to Bob Woodward about "crazytown") and now what is left is incompetent cleanup people. Jeff Sessions out there arguing in public with Drumpf about the smart way to accomplish Drumpf goals and the dumb way is just another example of wha'happened to MAGA?

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/25/2020 - 2:27pm

Here it was basically the same "do some knee-jerk activity that makes no sense and don't worry, someone else will clean it up" as the big boss.

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/25/2020 - 2:30pm

Trump's trade deal was already dead:

COVID-19 has revealed China’s promises to buy U.S. energy to be hollow, and Trump’s trade strategy to have failed, Jason Bordoff writes.https://t.co/rbDcGXQfYy
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) May 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 8:42pm

When the treaty was signed everyone with common sense knew this would happen. We just didn't know exactly when.

by ocean-kat on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 12:23am

Opened personal account on Twitter 22 hrs. ago, already has 4,700 followers, climbing fast:

. @appledaily_hk founder Jimmy Lai @JimmyLaiApple is on Twitter now #HongKong https://t.co/edsZ9lV4P1
— HKDemoNow (@hkdemonow) May 23, 2020

Guess who's new to Twitter? @JimmyLaiApple, 72-year-old #HongKong media boss & Giordano founder. You can thank him for all the cheap T-shirts & tabloid articles we've consumed over the years.
Also one of the pro-#democracy figures arrested this month. https://t.co/gKlrzFBdLN
— Joyce Lau (@JoyceLauNews) May 23, 2020

NYTimes described him this way Feb. 28 with the story of his arrest.: The media tycoon Jimmy Lai is the rare prominent businessman in Hong Kong who openly supports antigovernment protests.

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 12:59am

some interesting tweets about money going offshore, mainland China real estate collapse, rich mainlanders...

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 1:04am

UK, Australia & Canada voice deep concern at China’s proposed security law for Hong Kong

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