Hong Kong Crackdown Is an Early Test for Biden
In the beginning of this year, a thousand police officers armed with China’s tough new national security law arrested dozens of opposition legislators, lawyers and activists, who had organized and participated in an unofficial “primary” vote to select candidates for the 70-seat Legislative Council.
One minute after President Biden took office, China announced sanctions against 28 departing and former Trump administration officials, including Mr. Pompeo declaring that China's policies against Muslims in its Xinjiang region constitute a “genocide” and “crimes against humanity.”
Hong Kong is intolerable to the Chinese Communists not only as a gadfly, but as a standing rebuttal to Mr. Xi’s illiberal ideology.
Whatever signal China may have been trying to send by its crackdown on dissenters, the Biden administration should continue to stand with the people of Hong Kong.
Source: New York Times #Jan24
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/opinion/hong-kong-arrests.html?fbclid=IwAR2wCs5zIj60Qkj0zZRE0Sr9FqkUNNyeH260Te6fA1dpTBQiR8UraOLuRPA
#BidenEraChinaApproach #HongKong #China
In the beginning of this year, a thousand police officers armed with China’s tough new national security law arrested dozens of opposition legislators, lawyers and activists, who had organized and participated in an unofficial “primary” vote to select candidates for the 70-seat Legislative Council.
One minute after President Biden took office, China announced sanctions against 28 departing and former Trump administration officials, including Mr. Pompeo declaring that China's policies against Muslims in its Xinjiang region constitute a “genocide” and “crimes against humanity.”
Hong Kong is intolerable to the Chinese Communists not only as a gadfly, but as a standing rebuttal to Mr. Xi’s illiberal ideology.
Whatever signal China may have been trying to send by its crackdown on dissenters, the Biden administration should continue to stand with the people of Hong Kong.
Source: New York Times #Jan24
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/opinion/hong-kong-arrests.html?fbclid=IwAR2wCs5zIj60Qkj0zZRE0Sr9FqkUNNyeH260Te6fA1dpTBQiR8UraOLuRPA
#BidenEraChinaApproach #HongKong #China
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Opinion | Hong Kong Crackdown Is an Early Test for Biden
Even with Trump out of office, prospects seem dim for rapprochement between China and the United States.