My Take | Washington, please leave Hong Kong alone
- The US, which is forever intervening in other sovereign countries, from outright invasion and occupation, to staging coups d’etat and imposing severe economic sanctions, not to mention the occasional assassinations, kidnappings and torture, complains Beijing is interfering too much in Hong Kong, a Chinese city no less
Departing United States Consul General Hanscom Smith said Beijing should let “Hong Kong be Hong Kong”. The US Congressional-Executive Commission on China wants to sanction mid-level local officials, the new justice secretary and prosecutors for, well, whatever. Yes, they are talking about Hong Kong, a Chinese city. US officials’ incessant finger-pointing at the city and Beijing is becoming a sick joke.
Admittedly, parent China and child Hong Kong have hit a rough patch lately. And yes, it’s always the parent’s fault. But then, a violent serial child abuser comes along and picks on the Chinese family in the name of child protection. This is just too rich!
The US is a country that has been forever intervening in other sovereign states, from outright invasion and occupation, to staging coups d’etat, carrying out assassinations, kidnappings and torture, and severe economic sanctions that have killed hundreds of thousands of children, for example, in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, not to say malnourished many more, and to destroying whole economies, from Afghanistan to Venezuela.
John Bolton, the former national security adviser under Donald Trump, admitted this week during a CNN appearance to planning coups d’etat against foreign governments.
When the network host said, “One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup,” Bolton disagreed. “As somebody who has helped plan coups d’etat ― not here but, you know, other places ― it takes a lot of work,” Bolton said.
