By Choekyi Lhamo
DHARAMSHALA, July 7: The US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he signed the executive order that ended special status for Hong Kong under US law after China imposed a new security law, to silence dissent and impose draconian authority in Hong Kong.
It would end the preferential economic treatment for the international economic hub as Trump warned that it would be treated “the same as mainland China”. “No special privileges, no special economic treatment and no export of sensitive technologies,” said the US President.
Under the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992, US treated Hong Kong as a semi-autonomous part of China with a separate legal and economic system that is different from trade in mainland China. The signed order revoked several provisions; eliminate preferential treatment for HK passport holders, revoke exceptions for certain exports, suspend extradition treatment with HK, levy sanctions against certain individuals, reallocate refugee slots to Hong Kongers, among others.
President Trump also stated that he had signed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act which passed unanimously in Congress earlier this month. “This law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals and the entities involved in extinguishing Hong Kong’s freedom,” he told the press.
Similarly, the US State Department on July 7 announced that the Chinese government officials of the CCP responsible for keeping American citizens out of Tibet will be denied entry to the US under the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act (RATA).
In a tit for tat move, the CCP has banned Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz from ever visiting China!! Sure, the sanctions are meaningless, and im sure both Rubio and Cruz had a good laugh at the childishness of the CCP. Only a brainwashed pro-CCP could believe that the CCP really punished these American law makers with such empty, toothless gesture.
If the CCP really wanted to hurt the United States financially, Xi should never have send his daughter to expensive Harvard. Wait a minute, elitist Harvard is a pro CCP University? It’s be exposed that some of their globalist-woke-lefty professors, recruited in the Thousand Talents Plan, selling out their national interests, i.e. intellectual properties, and national security for organ harvesting China money?? NEVER MIND!!
Regionally, Singapore it would seem is a better choice for “export of sensitive technologies”. People tend to glamorize certain aspects of history in hindsight. So having some sort of perspective is always a good thing.
US foreign policy from the 70s (and to certain extent ties made in the 30s and 40s) have created what China is today. As people are well aware, diaspora tend to have a more uni-dimensional view of the “old country” without fully grasping various facets. Seems to be amplified the longer the diaspora have been glamorizing their history.
In terms of Tibet, do recall the telegraph operators stationed in Lhasa prior to 1950s and various National Geographic expeditions in regions of interest.