08-20-2019, 08:37 PM
** 20-Aug-2019 World View: Pompeo links Hong Kong with trade war
US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Tuesday made an interesting
argument relating the US-China trade negotiatons to the situation
in Hong Kong.
By way of introduction, Pompeo did not say that the US supports the
current protesters, but he said that the US supports the right to
protest:
With that introduction he made the connection between the US-China
trade negotiations and the Hong Kong protests:
Pompeo was alluding to the 1984 Joint Declaration on Hong Kong, signed
by China and Britain, in which China guaranteed that Hong Kong is to
be a "Special Administrative Region" of China, having its own laws,
freedoms, financial system and judicial system, for 50 years, from
1997 until 2047. This is known as "one country, two systems."
China has already said that the 1984 agreement was a historical
document that was no longer valid. Pompeo is saying that if
you violate the 1984 agreement, then we don't believe anything
else you say.
---- Source:
-- Pompeo Says China Should Respect Hong Kong Protesters' Rights
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ers-rights
(Bloomberg, 20-Aug-2019)
US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Tuesday made an interesting
argument relating the US-China trade negotiatons to the situation
in Hong Kong.
By way of introduction, Pompeo did not say that the US supports the
current protesters, but he said that the US supports the right to
protest:
Quote: "President Trump captured this, I think, perfectly
across the weekend when he said we support democracy, we support
liberty. We very much want to make sure that those folks that have
the desire in their hearts to protest -- to speak out on behalf of
their own freedom, their own liberty, to do so. And the Chinese
government should respect their right to speak out in a way that
they’re speaking."
With that introduction he made the connection between the US-China
trade negotiations and the Hong Kong protests:
Quote: "China needs to fulfill its promises. One of the
challenges in the trade deal is you have to make sure that China
actually lives up to the commitments that it would make. In Hong
Kong, this Chinese government made a promise that it has a central
understanding that there’d be one country, two systems and they
need to live up to that promise."
Pompeo was alluding to the 1984 Joint Declaration on Hong Kong, signed
by China and Britain, in which China guaranteed that Hong Kong is to
be a "Special Administrative Region" of China, having its own laws,
freedoms, financial system and judicial system, for 50 years, from
1997 until 2047. This is known as "one country, two systems."
China has already said that the 1984 agreement was a historical
document that was no longer valid. Pompeo is saying that if
you violate the 1984 agreement, then we don't believe anything
else you say.
---- Source:
-- Pompeo Says China Should Respect Hong Kong Protesters' Rights
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ers-rights
(Bloomberg, 20-Aug-2019)
