US President Donald Trump puts his signature under laws to support the Pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong is out of the question. “We need to stand side by side with Hong Kong’s”, but he was on the “side” of the Chinese leaders Xi Jinping. Strand said on Friday in an Interview with the TV channel Fox News. The parties to the conflict in the dispute over Hong Kong to find a solution, he says.
Trump made his statement clear that he balances between different interests. Solidarity with the democracy movement is facing its interest in an agreement with China to bring an end to the 2018 on-going trade conflict.
Trump said in an Interview with Fox News reaching an agreement with Beijing in trade disputes was “probably very close”. The U.S. Congress this week passed two bills to Hong Kong have caused in Beijing, however, furious reactions.
For “violent Criminals”
Among other things, to be deprived, therefore, of trading privileges for Hong Kong, if human rights and the rule of law be suppressed in the Chinese special administrative zone. So that the laws can come into force, they must be from Trump yet signed.
China’s foreign Minister Wang Yi accused Washington on Thursday, Chaos in Hong Kong, to produce and to the special administrations destroy. He described the bill as a support measure for “violent Criminals”. The for months in Hong Kong, protesters, democracy activists are referred to by Beijing regularly flat as Criminals and “terrorists”.
the head of state, Xi, in turn, said Beijing wanted an agreement with the United States, scaling back but also in front of a hard conflict with Washington. “We want to start a trade war, but we have no fear,” he said. “If necessary, we will fight back.”
“wiped out In 14 minutes”
Trump gave himself meanwhile, as the alleged merit of a Chinese military intervention in Hong Kong prevented. “Without me, Hong Kong would have been in 14 minutes wiped out,” he said in the channel Fox News. Then would have been killed in the months of protests rocked the Chinese special administrative zone “of thousands of people,” he said.
Xi have stationed “a Million soldiers” at the gates of Hong Kong, said Trump. They not only marched in the area, because he had asked Xi for it. He Xi said: “Please don’t make it. You would be making a big mistake.”
A Chinese military intervention would be “unbelievably negative impact” on the negotiations on a U.S.-Chinese trade agreement, stressed the US President. (roy/sda)
Created: 23.11.2019, 02:21 PM