My Take | Why UK and US love throwing stones in glass houses
- American and British politicians have been busy enacting and enforcing their own security laws while decrying those of Hong Kong
Criticisms of Hong Kong’s national security law by the British and Americans are sounding more hollow by the day. But the latest from a group of seven right-wing Republican congressmen takes the cake. It’s farcical. Still, their call is indicative of the immorality, recklessness and arrogance of American politicians when it comes to interfering with, and destroying, other countries and societies.
Well, it’s “to stop Hong Kong’s decline and protect US interests”. They also claim the law could expose US citizens and companies in Hong Kong to “serious risk of arrest and prosecution for exercising their basic freedoms”.
Hate to break it to you people, but any number of laws in Hong Kong could lead to the arrest and prosecution of US, or any other, nationals if they commit a crime. It makes more sense to just advise United States nationals to leave.
But American politicians are paranoid. They know their own agents, judges and prosecutors have been targeting, for years, Chinese researchers and business executives and sanctioning Chinese companies with the flimsiest of excuses, as well as other nationals and their businesses. Some of those cases involve extrajudicial reach. The FBI’s overtly racist “China Initiative”, anyone?