My Take | US will be the end of ‘one country, two systems’
- Inviting Washington to intervene in Hong Kong will only encourage Beijing to interfere even more
Self-righteous people usually don’t have a sense of irony, and those who like to jump on their high horses by quoting the Bible are often the worst hypocrites. It’s not by accident that you have a house packed full of those in the US Congress.
On the passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act by the US House of Representatives, Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticised those who sided with Beijing for fear of jeopardising their economic interests.
“To those who want to take the repressive government’s side in this discussion, I say to you: What does it profit a person if he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his soul?”
Spoken like Jesus Himself! Personally, I prefer Peter 2:16 for American politicians like Pelosi. “Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil.”
The act is also expected to pass in the US Senate. At the same time, US legislators have passed another bipartisan resolution to “condemn the interference of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong’s affairs”. Condemn?