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    China blasts Trump over his response to US unrest

    China blasts Trump over his response to US unrest

    Beijing calls president a hypocrite for criticising rioters while supporting Hong Kong protesters


    A man stands in front of burning vehicles following protests in Seattle on Sunday night © Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty

    Tom Mitchell in Singapore and Xinning Liu in Beijing
    June 1, 2020

    Chinese officials and state media outlets have savaged the Trump administration’s response to violent protests raging across the US, describing the president as a hypocrite after he supported Hong Kong’s demonstrations.
    In a tweet directed at US state department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus, who said the Chinese government had “flagrantly broken its promises to the people of Hong Kong” with its plan to impose a new security law in the territory, her counterpart at China’s foreign ministry, Hua Chunying, wrote “I can’t breathe”.
    Those were the final words uttered by George Floyd, the African American man whose death while being detained by Minneapolis police officers sparked violent confrontations in dozens of US cities.
    “After just three days of rioting in Minneapolis President Trump threatened to shoot protesters,” a commentary in the nationalist tabloid Global Times observed, in a reference to the president’s tweet that “when the looting starts the shooting starts”.
    The newspaper added that in more than six months of often violent demonstrations in Hong Kong, just one protester had been shot when he allegedly struck the arm of an officer who had drawn his service revolver in self-defence. In fact, three protesters have been shot during the course of Hong Kong’s unrest, none fatally.
    “Why does the US refer to black-clad rioters as ‘heroes’, but label its people protesting against racial discrimination as ‘thugs’?” Zhao Lijian, a foreign ministry spokesman, asked on Monday. “Why did the US have so many problems with restrained law enforcement by the Hong Kong police but have no problem at all with threatening to shoot at its domestic protesters?”
    https://www.ft.com/content/d0d1f288-...f-7680bd259938



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    they can go to hell or come do their own dirty work

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    Maybe its best for China's communist regime not to be meddling in the affairs of America's internal issues. Knowing what China did to Hong Kong democary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AngryCanadian View Post
    Maybe its best for China's communist regime not to be meddling in the affairs of America's internal issues. Knowing what China did to Hong Kong democary.
    They seem to be taking a page from Russia's playbook:




    During her first year in the White House, Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, befriended Ivanka Trump to be brought into the family circle. The women are pictured above at the Broadway debut of Come From Away in New York in March 2017


    The U.S. Wanted to Discuss Iran. Russia Brought Up Black Lives Matter.

    By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZJAN. 5, 2018

    In her remarks, Ms. Haley said that the United States would remain steadfastly behind the Iranian protesters.
    “Let there be no doubt whatsoever,” she said, “the United States stands unapologetically with those in Iran who seek freedom for themselves.”

    But there was evidence of a mini-revolt brewing within the Security Council chamber, not only among traditional adversaries like Russia and China, but also among close allies like France and Sweden. Many seemed to fear that the outspoken criticism by the Americans was simply a pretext to undermine the Iran nuclear deal, which President Trump has long desired to scrap.

    It is not precisely clear what Ms. Haley hoped to achieve by convening the session on Friday, which was not previously scheduled. Until the meeting began at 3 p.m., it was not even certain whether Ms. Haley would be able to secure the votes needed to call the session to order.
    But even before the session began, France’s ambassador, François Delattre, warned against “instrumentalization” of the protests “from the outside.”
    Speaking before the Council, he went further.
    “We must be wary of any attempt to exploit this crisis for personal ends, which would have a diametrically opposed outcome to that which is wished,” Mr. Delattre said.

    The Russian ambassador, Vasily A. Nebenzya, was more blunt. He asked rhetorically why the Security Council had not taken up the issue of Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, Mo., which were at times also met with a violent police response.“The real reason for convening today’s meeting is not an attempt to protect human rights or promote the interests of the Iranian people, but rather as a veiled attempt to use the current moment to continue to undermine” the Iranian deal, Mr. Nebenzya said.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/world/middleeast/un-iran-protests-debate.



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