Trump's tough choices over Hong Kong

Samantha Vinograd is a CNN national security analyst. She is a senior adviser at the University of Delaware's Biden Institute, which is not affiliated with the Biden campaign. Vinograd served on President Barack Obama's National Security Council from 2009 to 2013 and at the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush. Follow her @sam_vinograd. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion articles on CNN.

Successive administrations have struggled with an increasingly aggressive China, while factoring in the geopolitical reality that it is, and will likely continue to be, a global heavyweight. With just six months to go until the US presidential election, China has become a popular political football.

Samantha VinogradChina's latest move to introduce national security legislation in Hong Kong -- a semi-autonomous city that was guaranteed its own legal system and certain democratic freedoms until 2047 under the"one country, two systems" framework -- has sent shockwaves across the world. The draft legislation would ban sedition, secession and subversion of the central government in Beijing as well as"foreign interference.

sam_vinograd Opinion When the Catalans demanded autonomy from Spain and they were violently repressed, nobody spoke, now because it's China,every western media has an input

sam_vinograd Opinion CNN is just... PATHETIC!

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sam_vinograd Opinion It’s just like ask China to support American Indians get their lands back. And by the way HK historically has always been part of China thousand year before western people landed America

sam_vinograd Opinion Hong Kong ain't Africa or Middle East.cnn

sam_vinograd Opinion CNN'S opinion, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Wait let me think, yeah I was right HAHA HAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

sam_vinograd Opinion Big talk from world pussies.

sam_vinograd Opinion Time for Michigan, Virginia and California people to take a stand on Democrats further encroachment of their autonomy. Freedom starts right here.

sam_vinograd Opinion hongkong is part of China! It’s Chinese things. CNN now we need focus virus! Not Hong Kong ! Who care Hong Kong people?! Shame

sam_vinograd Opinion Trump is weak. All talk and little action.

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sam_vinograd Opinion Just look at how the rioters - your so-called freedom fighters - beat up a girl simply because she wanted to cross their roadblock.

sam_vinograd Opinion Hongkong is not another Iraq nor Syria. A country which gets angry when another steps up its security against terrorism，secession and subversion is a terrorist herself.

sam_vinograd Opinion I want to ask all Americans a question: Does Hongkong has any relationship with US? I really hate you.

sam_vinograd Opinion none of our business....before you encourage the US to interfere in China /Hong Kong disputes answer this question: Are you willing to go to war, you personally, with China?

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sam_vinograd Opinion Why is it OK for US to interfere other countries' politics? and it's not OK if country interferes US politics.

sam_vinograd Opinion Excuse me EXCUSE US? Take THEM ALL TO AMERICA GOOD RIDDANCE. FOR THOSE NOT IN THE KNOW - THE THUGS IN BLACK AND BEATING PEOPLE UP W UMBRELLAS ARE PRO DEMOCRACY. DONT GET MIXED UP YEAH

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sam_vinograd Opinion Listen Hong Kong is not America and not worth going to war over. I don’t give a flying fk about Hong Kong they are on their own. Any nothing can be done it’s a forgone conclusion

sam_vinograd Opinion CNN is nearly worthless. It’s Fox 2. Hong Kong is a territory of China, NOT the USA. When are we gonna realize we do not own the rest of the world? Do we not have enough unsettled crap in our own country to deal with ?

sam_vinograd Opinion Trump doesn't have time to interfere China's internal affairs.

sam_vinograd Opinion LOL YOU PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID. IM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY YOU THINK realDonaldTrump WILL EVEN BOTHER WITH THE LITTLE KIDDIE GAMES YOU ALL TRY TO PLAY. YALL PLAYING CHECKERS AND HES PLAYING CHESS.

sam_vinograd Opinion Evil Trump will support evil protesters. Evil likes evil

sam_vinograd Opinion CNN won’t keep us apart

sam_vinograd Opinion Wiki: According to Clauses 158 and 159 of the Basic Law, powers of interpretation and amendment of the Basic Law are vested in the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, respectively. Hong Kong's people have limited influence

sam_vinograd Opinion Then he will say we get along with China China no.proplem

sam_vinograd Opinion Why ? ! ? Don't they have anything else to laugh AT ? ! ?

sam_vinograd Opinion The US overturning HK's 'special status' hurts the HK people a lot more than it hurts China. If the US wants to stand with the HK people, they should increase ties between HK and the US, not break them apart.

sam_vinograd Opinion Human rights? Democracy? Freedom? Don't care. Money? Care

sam_vinograd Opinion He’s focused on retreating.

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sam_vinograd Opinion America first, then Hong Kong!

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sam_vinograd Opinion Why do we care about Hong Kong? Is the Chinese government also in charge of New York? What's important is that we do the American thing.

sam_vinograd Opinion Virus is China fault!!!!!

sam_vinograd Opinion He’s tough on China and y’all know it! Keep those headlines coming!

sam_vinograd Opinion To bad he's not standing in quick sand while drawing another doomsday line.

sam_vinograd Opinion I come over to FakeNewsCNN and it takes about 2 seconds to find a post trashing POTUS. I’m gonna start a news channel and repost opinion pieces and claim I’m not bias. “It’s not my opinion, I’m just reposting it.”

sam_vinograd Opinion This is screaming ww3 It's gonna happen.

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sam_vinograd Opinion Hong Kong legally belongs to China. Why does CNN want Trump to tell them what to do with it

sam_vinograd Opinion Wanna bet? 💰

sam_vinograd Opinion First, where the hell is the UK on this issue? Second, how dare you ignore the litany of real China sympathizers in this country. China ‘s human rights violations are despicable

sam_vinograd Opinion You are joking right?

sam_vinograd Opinion He doesn't care

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sam_vinograd Opinion Free Hong Kong. No more 天安門.

sam_vinograd Opinion I just saw on another channel how Trump was gonna start a war with China over his handling of the pandemic and trade deals. Now we want him to stoke them further? Do we want Dr Strangelove to become a documentary?

sam_vinograd Opinion Go to hell CNN,. Keep on preaching China propaganda, what are they paying you fools?

sam_vinograd Opinion It’s time for anchors and reporter to stand up to the donkey suite levels at . They know better hit need their jobs

sam_vinograd Opinion Wait now you want him to stand up to China? Oh CNN make up your mind. It is confusing for your 10 viewers.

sam_vinograd Opinion Correct. He is ridiculed throughout the world. Waken up US.

sam_vinograd Opinion I do n’t understand American thinking more and more. The United States can legislate Hong Kong for China. Why can't China legislate for its own Hong Kong SAR? And the US itself has national security legislation.

sam_vinograd Opinion Why , so when he does you can whine he’s starting a war. EnemyOfThePeople

sam_vinograd Opinion How YOU have the rights to get in other country's business! So that's what you've done to those middle east countries!!

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