Opinion | The GOP's China hardliners are too scared to stand up too Trump and look more toothless by the day. By lopezlinette.
explaining the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. The law, recently signed by the president, authorized sanctions against individuals who violated the rights of Hong Kongers and mandated an annual report on the state of democracy in the territory.— which had been beset by social unrest — the entire year. He did not, like president's before him, make speeches about standing up for democracy or human rights or America as a shining city on a hill.
To Trump his reelection hinges on pleasing his base. His base, he thinks, will be pleased to see the sale of farm goods enshrined in his Phase One trade deal with China. And so this trade deal is paramount, and the things hawks like Rubio want — a focus on human rights and China's encroaching power in Asia — are just afterthoughts to Trump.
To pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, Rubio and other hawks had to deal with a lack of support from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for example, whoOf course, perhaps there was no way to stop what was going to happen to Hong Kong. After Beijing passed the national security law curbing civil society in Hong Kong, it also summarily declared primaries for the city's.
But Hong Kong isn't the only issue that leaves China hawks looking ineffectual. On Tuesday Assistant Secretary of East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell gave a speech excoriating China for its military build out of the South China Sea and threatening sanctions against Chinese companies involved.
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