Opponents said this risked exposing Hongkongers to unfair trials and violent treatment. They also argued the bill would give China greater influence over Hong Kong and could be used to target activists and journalists.
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Press freedom advocates highlighted fresh examples on Monday showing how they believe President Donald Trump's anti-media rhetoric has given foreign dictators a framework to crack down on free expression.
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With one finger pointed at the Chinese this is a perfect example of four other fingers pointing back at him. He is showing support for people protesting the very thing he has supported.
What a wondrous pile of crap. Trump speaking freely speaking his views about the Fake News Media is cited by "Press freedom advocates" as a license for Chinese dictators that the Left supports and that Trump has been confronting.
Note that they are not free speech advocates, they speak for the license of the giant corporate propagandists of the Deep State and the Democrat Party that always carries water for the Chinese Communists.
IF YOU GO CARRYING PICTURES OF CHAIRMAN MAO, YOU AIN’T GOING TO MAKE IT WITH ANYONE ANYHOW:
Michael Bloomberg’s Chinese appeasement.
But Bloomberg is not alone, not even in the Democrat field, recall Joe Biden’s ‘c’mon man’, moment in his dismissal of the China threat…Few have recognized what the regime is. During Xi’s rule, China has imprisoned two million
Uighurs and other Muslims in China’s internment camps. These victims are harassed, mistreated, tortured and targets for ‘thought-transformation’ to ensure their loyalty to the CCP.
And while the men are imprisoned, Chinese agents of the State are quartered in their homes and share the bed of the wives of those the State has imprisoned, and the Left is mum as a church mouse.
Tens of millions of Tibetans, Chinese Christians, Falun Gong practitioners and others have been oppressed. Xi has suppressed the democracy movement in Hong Kong, whose supporters have been brutally attacked, injured and killed by police. China has expanded territorial control in the South China Sea, flouted international law when the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled against China, accelerated Chinese prodigious military expansion and labored to modernize it to become a formidable conventional, cyber, and nuclear force. Xi abandoned precedent and proclaimed that he would serve more than two terms, and that ‘Xi Jinping thought’ was the equal of Mao’s, the founder of the PRC, and Deng’s, its savior. Xi’s megalomania is unalloyed and unchecked. His regime poses the greatest strategic threat to the interests of the United States and its allies from Europe to the Indo-Pacific.
Presumably, Bloomberg admires them as
the ultimate nanny state.
