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Letters | Why must Trump, and not Boris Johnson, stand up for Hong Kong protesters?
I am a Chinese-American born in Hong Kong. The photos in the Post and images from television news remind me of stories my mother told of the Red Guards of the 1950s. Random people were accused of being anti-communists and “capitalists” and subjected to indiscriminate beatings and torture. This seems similar to what has happening on Hong Kong streets today or in the MTR, where the colour of your clothes makes you a target.
Meanwhile, although US President Donald Trump said the United States should not be the policeman of the world, he signed a law meddling in the affairs of a former British colony.
Why isn’t Boris Johnson and the United Kingdom involved in the state of “one country, two systems” today? Why does my country have to be dragged into an issue on which it has no standing? Remember, China and the UK are the only two parties to the Joint Declaration.
While these protesters-cum-rioters wave US flags and sing the US national anthem, they are at the same time destroying US businesses, like Starbucks outlets. Perhaps they haven’t figured out that Starbucks is a US-origin franchise.
These mindless students are causing job losses and hardship for ordinary Hongkongers. It is not wrong to call Hong Kong’s younger generation narcissistic. They may not see that, if the US takes away the so-called special privileges enjoyed by Hong Kong because of supposed human rights violations, more jobs will move north, along with the stock exchange, banks and law firms.
Andrew Ko, San Marino, California
Australia reveals double standards on human rights
The Australian government is quick to side with the US in criticising re-education camps in China, but when its own citizen, Julian Assange, suffers persecution for exposing human rights abuses by the United States, it chooses not to stand up for him. What hypocrisy!
Francis Lee, New South Wales
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