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How long will the EU last without Hong Kong as a revenue stream? Asking for a friend
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Tenpoundbass
2019 Aug 14, 1:26pm
Tenpoundbass
2019 Aug 14, 1:26pm
Almost every business in Hong Kong is EU owned. Hong Kong is Europe's gateway to China.
Europe doesn't have the resources China has. The EU is ten times more dependent on China than any other power in the world.
We have resources and are keen on building back here in the states. EU nations needs China.
Europe doesn't have the resources China has. The EU is ten times more dependent on China than any other power in the world.
We have resources and are keen on building back here in the states. EU nations needs China.
Washington (AFP) – US President Donald Trump was assailed Tuesday for his hands-off approach to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, avoiding criticizing Beijing even as Chinese troops massed on the border to the territory.
Critics on both sides of the political spectrum accused Trump of abandoning longstanding US policy to support democratic movements and giving Beijing a green light to intervene in one of the world’s most important financial and trade centers, a semi-autonomous Chinese region.
As protestors battled police in Hong Kong’s airport Tuesday, partially shutting down air traffic, Trump appeared ambivalent, telling journalists the situation was “very tricky.”
“I hope it works out for everybody including China. I hope it works out peacefully, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets killed,” he said.
– Trump urges calm –
Shortly afterward, Trump tweeted that US intelligence confirmed that Beijing had sent troops to the Hong Kong border.
“Everyone should be calm and safe!” Trump wrote, retweeting a video of People’s Liberation Army trucks in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.
But the US leader had no words in support of the protestors as Hong Kong experiences its largest crisis since the British handover of its former colony to China in 1997.
After more than four months of protests, his administration has mainly called for both sides to avoid violence, while denying Beijing’s accusations of US interference.
“Trump favors both sides in Hong Kong protests. Hardly a profile in courage,” said Nicholas Burns, a former senior US diplomat now at the Harvard University Kennedy School.
“The only side the US should be on is democratic rights for the people of Hong Kong.”
– ‘Green light’ for Xi Jinping –
The protests, which began in March and have intensified since then, are against a move by the Hong Kong government to allow the extradition of criminal suspects to China, which opponents view as an incursion into Hong Kong’s more transparent justice system.
But they have come as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s and Trump’s governments have plunged ever deeper into a wrenching battle over trade that is dragging down the economies of both, with no sign of a resolution.