BEIJING (Bloomberg): China’s state-run media called for retaliation after the Trump administration removed decades-old restrictions on interactions with Taiwan officials just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, one of its biggest moves yet to reshape U.S. ties with the Asian democracy.
US lifts decades-old rules on contacts with Taiwan, Chinese state media calls for retaliation
The Global Times newspaper warned that US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s moves were pushing the world’s biggest countries toward conflict.
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China’s state-run media called for retaliation after the Trump administration removed decades-old restrictions on interactions with Taiwan officials just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, one of its biggest moves yet to reshape U.S. ties with the Asian democracy.
The Communist Party-backed Global Times warned that Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s moves were pushing the world’s biggest countries toward conflict. Hu Xijin, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, said on Weibo China had a “precious window of opportunity for mainland China to teach a heavy lesson to the ‘Taiwan independence’ forces” and re-establish “st
China-Taiwan tensions rise as Trump administration scraps decades-old rules
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Televisions show a news broadcast of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Taipei, Taiwan, on Jan. 11, 2021.Bloomberg photo by I-Hwa Cheng.
China s state-run media called for retaliation after the Trump administration removed decades-old restrictions on interactions with Taiwan officials just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, one of its biggest moves yet to reshape U.S. ties with the Asian democracy.
The Communist Party-backed Global Times warned that Secretary of State Michael Pompeo s moves were pushing the world s biggest countries toward conflict. Hu Xijin, the newspaper s editor-in-chief, said on Weibo China had a precious window of opportunity for mainland China to teach a heavy lesson to the Taiwan independence forces and re-establish strategic leverage in the Taiwan Strait.
Nearly all of the city’s prominent pro-democracy voices have been arrested or forced into exile.
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Since the imposition of the National Security Law, most of Hong Kong’s prominent democratic activists have either been arrested or gone into exile. That includes Joshua Wong, who was sent to prison in December on charges of illegal assembly, and Nathan Law, who left Hong Kong soon after the law was implemented in July.
On January 6, with global attention focused on the messy aftermath of the U.S. elections, the Hong Kong police arrested 53 prominent political activists, searched 76 places, and froze $200,000 of assets under the National Security Law. Those arrested where charge with subversion for the alleged crime of organizing and participating in the democratic primaries for the postponed 2020 Legislative Council election, originally scheduled for September 2020.
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(Bloomberg) The U.S. Secretary of State and foreign ministers of the U.K., Canada and Australia expressed their “serious concern” about the arrest of 55 politicians and activists in Hong Kong, the governments said in a joint statement.
Hong Kong’s National Security Law, under which the arrests were made, is a breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration and undermines the “one country, two systems” framework, according to the statement.
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The people arrested last week haven’t been charged yet and most of them had been released as of late Friday, although their passports and travel documents were confiscated. They were held on suspicion of “subversion” for their roles in helping organize a democratic primary contest over the summer that involved more than 600,000 voters.