DETROIT (REUTERS) - Joe Biden would sanction China if president for its plan to impose new national security rules on Hong Kong, his campaign said on Wednesday (May 27), and accused President Donald Trump of having 'enabled' Beijing's curbs on freedoms in the former British colony.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
DETROIT - Joe Biden would sanction China if president for its plan to impose new national security rules on Hong Kong, his campaign said on Wednesday , and accused President Donald Trump of having"enabled" Beijing's curbs on freedoms in the former British colony.
He said the former vice president would rally American allies to pressure China, leverage he said Trump had"forfeited," and criticised the Republican president for praising leader Xi Jinping in the face of pro-democracy protests that shook the territory last year. The act, approved by Trump last year, requires the State Department to certify at least annually that Hong Kong retains enough autonomy to justify the favourable US trading terms that have helped it remain a world financial centre.
It now falls to President Donald Trump to decide to end some, all or none of the US economic privileges the territory enjoys. He said on Tuesday that Washington was working on a strong response that would be announced before the end of the week.
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