[ifinnegan]

Good statement.

Recognizes Chinese communists have abrogated the treaty, leaving it open Hong Kong to become a Singapore-like city-state.

[TangledUpInBlue]

Time to release another virus

[billorites]

I found the statement to be rather tepid at best.

[manc]

Hong Kong should claim independence from China and the world ceases to do business with them.
Enough of their crap and lies

[DoodleDawg]

Well that’ll teach ‘em.

[hinckley buzzard]

Where is New Zealand? A-WOL.

[Hieronymus]

leaving it open Hong Kong to become a Singapore-like city-state.

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Yeah. Right. How does the Malaysian army compare to the ChiComs?

[DesertRhino]

The hell with it. They should declare independence.

[ml/nj]

Hong Kong has flourished as a bastion of freedom.

So had the US.

ML/NJ

[Oscar in Batangas]

Perhaps China is trying to exercise the idea:

If your economy is on the ropes,
Start a War???

[BeauBo]

I seem to have missed the part about “or else...”

File this with all the other International rulings and agreements, that the Chicoms just blow off.

The only way for the ChiComs to save face now, is for the HK legislature to pass the same law for them. The result is the same - freedom is gone.

If the West does not formally recognize the loss of autonomy, and withdraw all the favorable treatment of a Sovereign HK (like a freely convertible HK Dollar), then we are complicit.

There might not ever be such a clearly defined cause to spark such united action - just a steady growth of creeping oppression, now enabled by newly unfettered ability of the ChiComs to arrest any HK opponents and execute them under this law.

If they get away with this, they will be emboldened to grab more.

Weakness invites aggression.

[Arcadian Empire]

Hey China, everybody hates you.

[indthkr]

Chicom bump for later.....

[Buttons12]

China just killed 100,000 Americans.
Let’s write a letter about that too.

[Chgogal]

CCP, we will never forget, we will never forgive.

Any agreement the CCP signs is worth less than the paper on which it is written.

I will wait for Trump's response tomorrow.

[SecondAmendment]

And yet another reason to stop doing business with the ChiComs and expel all their H1B and student visa holders ...

[Gay State Conservative]

The Butcher's of Beijing know damn well that there's nothing that the West can,*and will*,do to stop this.Just another example of the biggest mistake,*by far*,that the world's industrialized nations (the US,Europe,Japan,etc) have made in the last 40 years...opening their ports to Chinese made cr@p.

We were able to destroy the Soviet Union by bankrupting them. There's no way in hell that we'll be able to do the same with the ChiComs.

[discostu]

Actual statement:
We think what you’re doing is bad. But none of us are willing to get into a shooting war with you. And we can’t financially survive any form of sanctions. So can you do it more quietly and easily ignored.
Thanks

[va22030]

useless statement. no actions to back it.

maybe usa under trump willing to take some meaningless actions.

us deep state and business will see to it that nothing happens.

[Eleutheria5]

Not doing anything about it.