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Just Saying | While America burns, Donald Trump is busy ‘fixing’ Hong Kong’s problems
- Yonden Lhatoo compares the outbreak of social unrest across the US with Hong Kong’s protests to highlight the sheer hypocrisy of Washington’s cynical anti-China campaign
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Here’s a little reality check for America’s many useful idiots in Hong Kong: your great white hope for saving you from China’s clutches, US President Donald Trump, just gave everyone an unpleasant taste of what he really feels about the kind of dissent that has been on display on the streets of this city since last year.
Trump’s first response to violent public protests triggered by the death of an unarmed black man in the custody of Minneapolis police, apparently at the hands of a white officer, was to call them “THUGS” (in capital letters, no less) and threaten to send in the military with guns blazing.
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!” he tweeted cheerfully.
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So when Americans take to the streets in an eruption of rage against systemic racism that has afflicted their country since its founding, they are “rioters” who deserve to be shot dead? But when radicals in Hong Kong go on the rampage, hurling petrol bombs, destroying public property and lynching anyone who objects to their excesses in the name of democracy, they are mighty champions of freedom? The cognitive dissonance makes one’s head spin.
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Donald Trump announces US will revoke Hong Kong’s special status
Donald Trump announces US will revoke Hong Kong’s special status
America is burning, as protesters clash with police across the country, and what is Trump busy doing? Priorities, priorities – castigating Beijing for trying to end extreme social unrest in Hong Kong through a new national security law for the city. While he gets to use his own country’s national security laws on the US population any time he likes.
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