US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was ending trade preferences for Hong Kong and signed into law an act that authorises sanctions on banks over China's clampdown in the international finance hub.
"Hong Kong will now be treated the same as mainland China - no special privileges, no special economic treatment and no export of sensitive technologies," Mr Trump said in the White House Rose Garden.China threatens to use new Hong Kong security laws to target pro-democracy politicians The new US law authorises sanctions against Chinese officials and Hong Kong police seen as infringing on the city's autonomy - and, crucially, any banks that make significant transactions with them.
Donald Trump holds a press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, July 14, 2020The White House in a statement acknowledged its concerns that the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, a tougher follow-up to a law last year, limits the president's leeway to waive sanctions. China has quickly put the law to use, on Monday warning that a primary among pro-democracy parties in which 600,000 Hong Kongers participated was a"serious provocation."
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Yep, Free world stands with HK. HKers either choose keep fighting the draconian new law or escape to the free world, like Jews in the WW2.
accountable to who? Trump?
Obviously they aren't buying the soy beans and pork then.
China devised and instigated the law I think they already know they are accountable! Trump is just the jester in all this.
By punishing Hong Kong... seems legit.
Did anyone sit through this morons illiterate crap this am🥴
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