While America burns, Donald Trump is busy ‘fixing’ Hong Kong’s problems

[Nan Yang]

While America burns, Donald Trump is busy ‘fixing’ Hong Kong’s problems

• Yonden Lhatoo compares the outbreak of social unrest across the US with Hong Kong’s protests to highlight the sheer hypocrisy of Washington’s cynical anti-China campaign

Yonden Lhatoo
Published: 5:24pm, 30 May, 2020

Here’s a little reality check for America’s many useful idiots in Hong Kong: your great white hope for saving you from China’s clutches, US President Donald Trump
, just gave everyone an unpleasant taste of what he really feels about the kind of dissent that has been on display on the streets of this city since last year.
Trump’s first response to violent public protests
triggered by the death of an unarmed black man in the custody of Minneapolis police, apparently at the hands of a white officer
, was to call them “THUGS” (in capital letters, no less) and threaten to send in the military with guns blazing.
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!” he tweeted cheerfully.

Protesters set fire to a police station in Minneapolis. Photo: Reuters

So when Americans take to the streets in an eruption of rage against systemic racism that has afflicted their country since its founding, they are “rioters” who deserve to be shot dead? But when radicals in Hong Kong go on the rampage, hurling petrol bombs, destroying public property and lynching anyone who objects to their excesses in the name of democracy, they are mighty champions of freedom? The cognitive dissonance makes one’s head spin.

America is burning, as protesters clash with police across the country, and what is Trump busy doing? Priorities, priorities – castigating Beijing for trying to end extreme social unrest
in Hong Kong through a new national security law
for the city. While he gets to use his own country’s national security laws on the US population any time he likes.

Donald Trump’s first response was to call protesters thugs. Photo: Bloomberg

Never mind the carnage and chaos in his own backyard, it’s all about fixing China using its weakest link, Hong Kong, as a sad little pawn in the greater geopolitical struggle between the two powers.

Following the official assertion
by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – now there’s a real “thug” if you ever saw one – that Hong Kong no longer enjoys the degree of autonomy promised by Beijing, Trump has announced that his administration will begin stripping the city of its special status under which Washington treats it as a separate trading and customs entity from the rest of China.

Mike Pompeo says Hong Kong no longer enjoys the degree of autonomy promised by Beijing. Photo: Reuters

While the measure will mostly hurt Hong Kong, not Beijing, and America’s myriad business interests in the city also stand to suffer, Trump has remained tellingly vague on details
, and hinted at possible “exceptions”, setting aside wiggle room to avoid collateral damage and a counterproductive fallout.
In other words, it’s mostly bluff and bluster, distraction and deception, the hallmarks of the Trump administration. Any fool – unless you’re one of those brainwashed boneheads waving the star-spangled banner on Hong Kong streets – can see he’s made a tough statement but there’s no actual substance or follow-through strategy behind it.

A protester in Minneapolis carries a US flag upside down – a sign of distress. Photo: AP

The story of Washington’s concern for human rights in Hong Kong, to borrow an old line from Shakespeare, “is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.

After George Floyd died while being arrested for allegedly using a fake note at a convenience store, an enraged mob set the local police station on fire, something pretty much unheard of in the US. Unlike in Hong Kong, where our “revolutionaries” have been known to firebomb more than 20 police stations in a single day.

Donald Trump has remained vague on the details of the actions he plans to take. Photo: Reuters

If American demonstrators want to take a page from Hong Kong protesters’ playbook to frustrate their government, they could try the famous “five demands” – with US characteristics, of course:

1. End racism, especially against African Americans.
2. Stop characterising protesters as “rioters”.
3. Amnesty for all arrested protesters.
4. An independent inquiry into police brutality.
5. President Trump step down immediately.

What nonsense, you say? What government would agree to such demands? I rest my case.

Yonden Lhatoo is the chief news editor at the Post

Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...-donald-trump-busy-fixing-hong-kongs-problems

 

[bluesky]

Instead of being a problem shooter, President Trump remains a trouble-maker worse than G.W Bush. American should actively seek his replacement with another person not naive to international diplomacy.

 

[Ghareeb_Da_Baal]

amazing that bhindians on twitter are calling the rioters Muslims & commies and reporting muslims who seem to show support towards peaceful protestors. Them chutya are little pieces of shit.

 

[Beast]

Instead of being a problem shooter, President Trump remains a trouble-maker worse than G.W Bush. American should actively seek his replacement with another person not naive to international diplomacy.

Most American loves Trump. He bring out the violent and arrogant of extreme American mentality. This is the true face of most American. The white American treat most Black as trash. The highest they can attain are only entertainer and sportsmen which main purpose is to keep white entertain. When comes to ruling and corporate, it is what the white says count. Even Obama is a half white, he is mostly following white neocon instruction.

 

[bluesky]

Most American loves Trump. He bring out the violent and arrogant of extreme American mentality. This is the true face of most American. The white American treat most Black as trash. The highest they can attain are only entertainer and sportsmen which main purpose is to keep white entertain. When comes to ruling and corporate, it is what the white says count. Even Obama is a half white, he is mostly following white neocon instruction.

Understand what you mean. But, the next election will be between Trump and Joe Biden from the Democratic Party. Biden gained a lot of experience in the past. I hope, Americans will chose him.

However, it is also true that Trump is trying to awaken white sentiment by blaming China for many things he could not fix in the last few years. This Trump guy is playing controversial from day 1 in the White House. This guy offered to buy Greenland from Denmark. It declined it and Trump cancelled his visit there. What kind of idiot the Americans have elected in the top office with almost a semi-God political power?

 

[lcloo]

“When the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!” he (Trump) tweeted cheerfully.

The Origin of the racist "When the looting starts, the shooting starts":-
In 1967, Miami police Chief Walter Headley used the phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" during hearings about crime in the Florida city, invoking angry reactions from civil rights leaders, according to a news report at the time.

"He had a long history of bigotry against the black community," said professor Clarence Lusane of Howard University.

"The NAACP and other black organizations had for years complained about the treatment of the black community by Miami police. At this hearing, in discussing how he would deal with what he called crime and thugs and threats by young black people, he issued this statement that the reason Miami had not had any riots up to that point, was because of the message he had sent out that 'when the looting starts, the shooting starts,' " Lusane said.

Headley was head of the police force for 20 years and referred to his "get tough" policy on crime during a 1967 news conference as a war on "young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign. ... We don't mind being accused of police brutality."

 

[Viva_Viet]

Since Trump cancelled TPP deal, I already realize hes too dumb tobe good POTUS.

Okay, US ppl vote for dumb President, then thats what u guys paid for

 

[atan651]

I wonder what would happen if US cops were to swap places with HK cops. Those real THUGS in hk would have been squashed like roaches and their scrawny bodies would be pumped full of bullets.

 

[Viva_Viet]

I wonder what would happen if US cops were to swap places with HK cops. Those real THUGS in hk would have been squashed like roaches and their scrawny bodies would be pumped full of bullets.

HK rioters won the vote, HK police should arrest Lam for keep sitting on HK leader chair instead.