US Calls China “Thuggish Regime” For Releasing Identity Of US Official Caught Meeting With HK Protesters
by Tyler Durden
Thu, 08/08/2019
A State Department spokesperson on Thursday afternoon issued a statement calling China a “thuggish regime” for releasing details on the US diplomat stationed in Hong Kong.
“I don’t think that leaking an American diplomat’s private information, pictures, names of their children, I don’t think that is a formal protest, that is what a thuggish regime would do,” spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told a news briefing. “That is not how a responsible nation would behave.”
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Guess Who China Is Blaming For The Riots In Hong Kong?
by Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/14/2019
As a result of our ongoing trade war, U.S. relations with China were already rapidly deteriorating, but now the chaos in Hong Kong threatens to completely wreck them. Violence between political protesters and riot police is making headlines all over the globe, and as you will see below, the Chinese are squarely blaming the United States for what is happening. On Tuesday, flights at Hong Kong International Airport were canceled for a second day in a row, and riot police stormed the airport in an attempt to evict the thousands of protesters that were occupying it. This resulted in extremely violent clashes, and you can see raw video of one of these confrontations right here. Needless to say, the Chinese government is extremely alarmed by these developments. According to ABC News, one top official told the press that these protests in Hong Kong “have begun to show signs of terrorism”…
Read more at https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-14/
Provoking China
By Amy Mackinnon, Robbie GramerThe Trump administration has appointed a Uighur American academic as director for China at the National Security Council in a symbolic move that could impact talks—and relations—between the two countries.
Current and former U.S. officials told Foreign Policy that Elnigar Iltebir, a Harvard Kennedy School-educated academic and daughter of a prominent Uighur intellectual and journalist, was recently appointed to the White House post. Under the U.S. President Donald Trump, there has been a trend of avoiding public announcements regarding National Security Council appointments.
Read more at https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/14/
