Pres. Trump says he is directing his administration to impose sanctions on unspecified Chinese officials tied to China’s latest moves on Hong Kong.
that the U.S. would permanently stop funding the W.H.O. and withdraw from the United Nations agency unless it made"major substantive improvements within the next 30 days."
He did not mention the death of George Floyd, a black man who was seen pinned down in a video by a white police officer in Minneapolis and later died, or the ensuing protests across the country. A protester prays in front of the memorial of George Floyd who died in custody on May 26, 2020 in Minneapolis.
"China's latest incursion, along with other recent developments that degraded the territory’s freedoms, makes clear that Hong Kong is no longer sufficiently autonomous to warrant the special treatment that we have afforded the territory since the handover" of the territory from Britain to China, Trump said.
He said the announcement"will affect the full range of agreements we have with Hong Kong from our extradition treaty to our export controls on dual use technologies and more with a few exceptions,” he said. “We will be revising the State Department's travel advisory for Hong Kong to reflect the increased danger of surveillance and punishment by the Chinese state security apparatus.”
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